Social priming for nonnative-accented speech

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. A312-A312
Author(s):  
Drew J. McLaughlin ◽  
Kristin J. Van Engen
Keyword(s):  
Accented Speech

Accented Speech and Accent Addition Training

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Angela N. Burda Riess
Keyword(s):  
Accented Speech

Listen Closely: Recognition Memory for Foreign-accented Speech

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica E. D. Alexander ◽  
Tashauna L. Blankenship ◽  
Kristen E. T. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Accented Speech

Talker-Specificity and Memory for Foreign-Accented Speech

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Alexander ◽  
Tashauna Blankenship ◽  
Kristen E. T. Mills ◽  
Erica Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Accented Speech

scholarly journals In the Ear of the Listener: The Role of Foreign Accent in Interethnic Friendships and Partnerships

2021 ◽  
pp. 019791832098883
Author(s):  
Irena Kogan ◽  
Jörg Dollmann ◽  
Markus Weißmann
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Foreign Accent ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
Accented Speech ◽  
Interethnic Friendships ◽  
Communicative Power

This article examines the association between accented speech and the formation of friendships and partnerships among immigrants and native-born majority residents in Germany. Drawing on the sixth wave of the German extension of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries, we analyze a neglected aspect of language — pronunciation — and find that speaking with a foreign accent is a more important correlate of the incidence of interethnic partnerships than of interethnic friendships. We argue that beyond its primary function of understandability, accented speech possesses socially communicative power. Accent transmits signals of an individual’s foreignness and cultural differences and, thus, becomes an additional marker of social distance. Such signals serve as a greater obstacle to more consequential intimate interethnic relations such as partnerships. Our findings extend the scholarly debate on the role of symbolic boundaries in social interactions between ethnic groups by yet another important boundary maker — accent.

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