2. One flaw for sure is that all the accents are most likely not covered within the United States. The main ones are though, for example, they showed examples of accents from Texas, Ohio, Kentucky, Manhattan, Boston. I feel that they left out Chicago, and Miami; two big cities that have their own accents. To make the study more appealing I would have figured out who my audience was, and compared their accent to the others in the U.S. I felt that the southern and western accents were over represented, but then I can barely understand those dialects, thus it might have seemed much longer in that portion of the study than NYC accent or the Boston one as well.
3. The way we speak is the way we present our thoughts and ideas to the world. Most people will speak their own dialect around their friends and such because they know each other, and understand what they are saying to each other. When people are around others they don't know they will most likely speak more formally to avoid confusion. If you get two different people with their own different dialects in the same conversation, those two people talking might make unfair judgements about the person. I know that most people definitely think of hillbillies as the stupidest people around, but exactly how do we know that when we don't know what they say? They could be some of the smartest people in the world, and we wouldn't have a clue. We reveal our personality through our dialects. A person who speaks very quietly can be seen as shy. A person who speaks loudly can be seen as outgoing, and confident.
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