
doi: 10.1121/1.5147376
Research shows that listeners' perceived accentedness can be mediated by visual input (Babel & Russell, 2015; McGowan, 2015; Zheng & Samuel, 2017), and can change depending on their exposure to varied speech (Baese-Berk et al., 2013). Here, we tested the impact that visual input and linguistic diversity has on listeners' perceived accentedness judgments. Two experiments were conducted: one in Gainesville (USA) and one in Montreal (Canada). While these two locations were selected for their bilingual populations, Montreal has a more diverse linguistic landscape (Gullifer & Titone, 2019). Participants completed an accentedness judgment task where they were shown either a White or a South-Asian face while listening to sentences in American, British, and Indian English. They also completed a language background questionnaire, a social network questionnaire, and executive control tasks. In an ongoing study, results show that for Gainesville, participants' perceived accentedness of all three varieties increased when the visual input changed from a White face to a South-Asian face (F(2, 66) = 33.3, p < 0.001). The same effect was not observed for listeners in Montreal (F(2,23) = 0.664, p = 0.524). These preliminary findings suggest that exposure to both different accents and racial/ethnic categories on a regular basis could impact perceived accentedness judgements.
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