Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch : a speaker evaluation experiment
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- Moira Van Puyvelde, Sarah Van Hoof (UGent) , Chloé Lybaert (UGent) and Koen Plevoets (UGent)
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- This contribution investigates the attitudes of Flemish first language speakers towards Turkish-Flemish speakers of Dutch as a second language. We conducted a 2 x 2 x 2 speaker evaluation experiment measuring the effects of accent (native vs. Turkish), language variety (standard vs. colloquial) and name (Flemish vs. Turkish) on attitudes vis-à-vis male speakers of Belgian Dutch. Our findings provide no consistent evidence of a negative bias vis-à-vis Turkish names in Flanders. While this result could be attributed to a social desirability bias, consistent downgrading of the Turkish accent on Superiority provides an indication of the existence of an accent bias that penalises ethnic minority accents in competence-related judgements.
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- language attitudes, language variation, accent bias, ethnic difference, speaker evaluation experiment, FOREIGN ACCENT, LANGUAGE, ENGLISH, ATTITUDES
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01H4NPNXS0H4WMQABXMZJ9CS32
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- Van Puyvelde, Moira, et al. “Examining Accent Bias towards Turkish Speakers of Dutch : A Speaker Evaluation Experiment.” DUTCH JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, vol. 12, 2023, doi:10.51751/dujal12841.
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- Van Puyvelde, M., Van Hoof, S., Lybaert, C., & Plevoets, K. (2023). Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch : a speaker evaluation experiment. DUTCH JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, 12. https://doi.org/10.51751/dujal12841
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- Van Puyvelde, Moira, Sarah Van Hoof, Chloé Lybaert, and Koen Plevoets. 2023. “Examining Accent Bias towards Turkish Speakers of Dutch : A Speaker Evaluation Experiment.” DUTCH JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS 12. https://doi.org/10.51751/dujal12841.
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- Van Puyvelde, Moira, Sarah Van Hoof, Chloé Lybaert, and Koen Plevoets. 2023. “Examining Accent Bias towards Turkish Speakers of Dutch : A Speaker Evaluation Experiment.” DUTCH JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS 12. doi:10.51751/dujal12841.
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- 1.Van Puyvelde M, Van Hoof S, Lybaert C, Plevoets K. Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch : a speaker evaluation experiment. DUTCH JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS. 2023;12.
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- [1]M. Van Puyvelde, S. Van Hoof, C. Lybaert, and K. Plevoets, “Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch : a speaker evaluation experiment,” DUTCH JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, vol. 12, 2023.
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