LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE FOR SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTITUDES: HYPERACCOMMODATION OR (r)‘ BY SINGERS FROM A MIZRAJjI BACKGROUND

Introduction Linguistic background Like some other countries which were colonized by the British or the French, Israel founded a language academy which is taken seriously by the population. The academy makes strong pronouncements, and even has radio slots to publicize them in prime time. While the radio slots are primarily used to publicize syntactic, lexical or morphological ‘rules’, all the broadcasters on the government radio and TV networks are officially required to know and use the prescriptive norm for the phonology as well. This norm prescribes five vowels, and the consonant system portrayed in Table la.