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Now You See Me, Now You Mishear Me: Raciolinguistic Accounts of Speech Perception in Different English Varieties
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Kutlu, Ethan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Listeners can access information about a speaker such as age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background upon hearing their speech. However, it is still not clear if listeners use these factors to assess speakers' speech. Here, an audio-visual (matched-guise) test is used to measure whether listeners' accentedness…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgements in Racially Diverse and Non-Diverse Groups
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Kutlu, Ethan; Tiv, Mehrgol; Wulff, Stefanie; Titone, Debra – Applied Linguistics, 2022
"Standard" varieties are often perceived as morally superior compared with "nonstandard" varieties (Hill 2008). Consequently, these differences lead to ideologies that racialize "nonstandard" varieties (Rosa 2016), and increase the negative stereotypes towards "nonstandard" varieties (Giles and Watson 2013).…
Descriptors: Race, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes, Language Variation