Upon hearing someone's speech, a listener can access information such as the speaker's
age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, an …

Listeners can access information about a speaker such as age, gender identity,
socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background upon hearing their speech. However …

Standard varieties are often perceived as morally superior compared with nonstandard
varieties. Consequently, these differences lead to ideologies that racialize nonstandard …

An unresolved issue in social perception concerns the effect of perceived ethnicity on
speech processing. Bias-based accounts assume conscious misunderstanding of native …

Socio-indexical cues and paralinguistic information are often beneficial to speech
processing as this information assists listeners in parsing the speech stream. Associations …

Talker and listener sex in speech processing has been largely unknown and under-
appreciated to this point, with many studies overlooking the possible influences. In the …

Foreign-accented speech commonly incurs a processing cost, but this cost can be offset
when listeners are given informative cues to the speaker's purported ethnicity and/or …

Research in second language speech has often focused on listeners' accent judgment and
factors that affect their perception. However, the topic of listeners' application of specific …

In this study we identify some of the phonetic parameters that correlate with nonnative
speakers'(NNSs) perceptual judgments of accent in English and investigate NNS listener …

This article explores the relationship between salience, stereotypes, and cooccurring
language variables in the social perception of language. Following previous work, we argue …