A Review of "How You Say it": How you say it: Why you talk the way you do—and what it says about you, Katherine D. Kinzler, Boston, MA, Mariner Books, 2020, 256 pp., ISBN: 0544986555.

Learning to communicate in one's native language(s) is one of the most impressive accomplishments of the first few years of life. A Review of "How You Say it": How you say it: Why you talk the way you do - and what it says about you, Katherine D. Kinzler, Boston, MA, Mariner Books, 2020, 256 pp., ISBN: 0544986555 By early childhood, these biases are explicit - children prefer to learn (even non-linguistic information) from people who speak their native language with their native accent (Kinzler, Corriveau, & Harris, [2]), explicitly say they would rather be friends with someone who speaks with their native accent (Kinzler, Shutts, DeJesus, & Spelke, [5]), and begin to endorse language-based stereotypes (e.g., about who is nicer or smarter; Kinzler & DeJesus, [3]). [Extracted from the article]