Accent Hallucination. False Ranges. Thanks, Chris.
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🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
891. Your mind will be blown when you learn about accent hallucination. (Mine was!) And then we'll learn how to avoid false ranges.
Transcript: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/accent-hallucination-false-ranges
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Rubin, D.L. 1992. Nonlanguage factors affecting undergraduates' judgments of nonnative English-speaking teaching assistants. Res High Educ 33, 511–531
Vaughn C. R. (2019). Expectations about the source of a speaker's accent affect accent adaptation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(5), 3218.
References for the False Range segment by Rhiannon Root:
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a New Enfoguri and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language. |
| 0:11.8 | We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff. |
| 0:16.2 | Today we're going to talk about some linguistic studies about accents that absolutely blew |
| 0:21.9 | my mind. |
| 0:23.2 | And then we're going to talk about a common tool called the false range that can set some |
| 0:27.4 | people's teeth on edge, and yet other people don't even notice. |
| 0:35.5 | Research has shown over and over that people tend to prefer people who sound like them, |
| 0:41.1 | leading to what's called accent bias, or negative feelings about people who speak with |
| 0:46.5 | a different accent. |
| 0:49.1 | Researchers have found that accent bias leads to problems for non-native speakers by making |
| 0:53.9 | it harder for them to have the same chances as native speakers to succeed in school or |
| 0:59.1 | in work. |
| 1:00.5 | And people often don't have as much legal recourse when they're discriminated against because |
| 1:04.5 | of the way they sound. |
| 1:06.1 | For example, employers may argue that the accent would interfere with work performance. |
| 1:11.6 | But researchers have shown that even the belief that speakers have an accent rather than |
| 1:16.5 | any accent itself creates a barrier to comprehension. |
| 1:21.3 | This means that some speakers, especially those who might be mistaken as non-native, |
| 1:26.0 | might suffer from accent bias without even having an accent. |
| 1:31.0 | And it may be that the increased cognitive processing required when encountering an unfamiliar |
| 1:36.2 | accent or just expecting to hear one, is partially to blame for problems with communication. |
| 1:42.9 | This means that some speakers, especially those who might be mistaken as non-native, |
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