What Gives Users of English 'Foreign Accent'?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sekar Jeyaraj
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Accent

Foreign accent, gender, and location as determinants of employment decisions

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megumi Hosoda ◽  
Jennifer N. Walter ◽  
Lucia Arsintescu ◽  
Tuan Q. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Accent ◽  
Employment Decisions

The Influence of Foreign Accent on Morphological Processing in English

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie B. Feldman ◽  
Dana Basnight Brown ◽  
Yuki Kanai
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Processing ◽  
Foreign Accent

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.

Perceived foreign accent in first language attrition and second language acquisition: The impact of age of acquisition and bilingualism—ERRATUM

2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOLGER HOPP ◽  
MONIKA S. SCHMID
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Open Access ◽  
First Language ◽  
Age Of Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Accent ◽  
Language Attrition ◽  
First Language Attrition ◽  
The Impact

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Talker and listener effects on degree of perceived foreign accent

1992 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 370-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Emil Flege ◽  
Kathryn L. Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Accent
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