Accent bias is a consequence of ethnocentrism. No studies have examined accent bias across educational levels in the U.S., much less across students and professionals in speech language pathology (SLP), a field that requires multicultural sensitivity training. This study examines nonnative accent perception among three groups—high schoolers, SLP students, and SLP professionals. One-hundred-and-...

Previous research shows that, Spanish speakers studying Japanese face significant difficulties when perceiving Japanese word accent contrasts, particularly between accented and unaccented words. We hypothesise that this is probably due to poorly developed accent categories in the target population. The results of a categorical perception test show great differences between native and non-native...

Reductions in perceptual fluency have been shown to negatively impact attitudes towards learning material, but not learning itself. The current study extends this work to spoken presentations and examines whether the presence of a foreign accent negatively affects learners’ experience in an online learning environment. Results indicate that the presence of an instructor accent, consistent with ...

Results from an experiment on perception of lexical pitch accents in Gothenburg Swedish (11) showed that both higher initial F0 plateaux and later falls biased native listeners toward the Accent 2 category, while lower plateaux and earlier falls biased toward Accent 1. Segerup and Nolan interpret this as evidence for a perceptual mechanism integrating scaling and timing information, which they ...

Adults and young children prefer to affiliate with some individuals rather than others. Studies have shown that monolingual children show in-group biases for individuals who speak their native language without a foreign accent (Kinzler et al., 2007). Some studies have suggested that bilingual children are less influenced than monolinguals by language variety when attributing personality traits ...

This phenomenological study looked into the lived experiences of fourth-year students exposed to drama provincial accented speech. Colaizzi's descriptive approach was used in with purposively chosen key informants various tools cross-check their responses. Results showed biases on an accent because thought inferiority accent, harassment speech for they experience overt linguistic racism, probab...

Unit selection synthesis has made it possible to produce speech with high quality. However, because it allows little control over intonation, it may produce speech with contextually inappropriate intonation. In the signalling of information status, intonation, in particular, choice of pitch accent, has been taken into account in a number of dialogue systems. Previous research shows that this ca...

farsi and english are both indo-european languages with similarities in their roots. as such, this experiment was conducted to understand which english accent (i.e. american, british or australian accents) would be easier for iranians to adapt. to answer this question, 30 medical students performed three different activities of (i) listening to audio texts in three accents, (ii) taking part in ...