Effects of jargon and source accent on receptivity to science communication

ZA Dayton, M Dragojevic - Journal of Language and Social …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We examined whether source accent moderates jargon's effects on listeners' processing
fluency and receptivity to science communication. Americans heard a speaker describing …

[HTML][HTML] Relating pronunciation distance metrics to intelligibility across English accents

T Bent, M Henry, RF Holt, H Lind-Combs - Journal of Phonetics, 2024 - Elsevier
Unfamiliar accents can cause word recognition challenges, particularly in noisy
environments, but few studies have incorporated quantitative pronunciation distance metrics …

Preference for native-accented peers in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring Czech

L Jarůšková, K Chládková - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The way a talker speaks influences how they are socially perceived. Social preferences
based on language are present already in early childhood: children generally prefer to …