Credibility of native and non-native speakers of English revisited: Do non-native listeners feel the same?

Hanzlíková, Dagmar; Skarnitzl, Radek

dc.contributor.author	Hanzlíková, Dagmar	en
dc.contributor.author	Skarnitzl, Radek	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-04-03T11:45:14Z
dc.date.available	2018-04-03T11:45:14Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10-11	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24378
dc.description.abstract	This study reports on research stimulated by Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) who showed that native listeners find statements delivered by foreign-accented speakers to be less true than those read by native speakers. Our objective was to replicate the study with non-native listeners to see whether this effect is also relevant in international communication contexts. The same set of statements from the original study was recorded by 6 native and 6 nonnative speakers of English. 121 non-native listeners rated the truthfulness of the statements on a 7-point scale. The results of our study tentatively do confirm a negative bias against non-native speakers as perceived by non-native listeners, showing that subconscious attitudes to language varieties are also relevant in communication among non-native speakers.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;15	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
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dc.subject	credibility	en
dc.subject	foreign accent	en
dc.subject	language attitudes	en
dc.subject	speech communication	en
dc.subject	speech perception	en
dc.title	Credibility of native and non-native speakers of English revisited: Do non-native listeners feel the same?	en
dc.page.number	285-298	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Charles University	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Charles University	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	Hanzlíková, Dagmar - dagmar.hanzlik@gmail.com	en
dc.contributor.authorEmail	Skarnitzl, Radek - radek.skarnitzl@ff.cuni.cz	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/rela-2017-0016	en

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