Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch
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...
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| author | Moira Van Puyvelde Sarah Van Hoof Chloé Lybaert Koen Plevoets |
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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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| spelling | doaj.art-3a41f64a28ae4c30b7a7d0370075e42f2023-07-05T07:17:14Zengopenjournals.nlDutch Journal of Applied Linguistics2211-72532023-07-011210.51751/dujal12841Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of DutchMoira Van PuyveldeSarah Van Hoof0Chloé LybaertKoen PlevoetsUniversiteit Gent 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. https://dujal.nl/article/view/12841language attitudeslanguage variationaccent biasethnic differencespeaker evaluation experiment |
| spellingShingle | Moira Van Puyvelde Sarah Van Hoof Chloé Lybaert Koen Plevoets Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics language attitudes language variation accent bias ethnic difference speaker evaluation experiment |
| title | Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch |
| title_full | Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch |
| title_fullStr | Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch |
| title_full_unstemmed | Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch |
| title_short | Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch |
| title_sort | examining accent bias towards turkish speakers of dutch |
| topic | language attitudes language variation accent bias ethnic difference speaker evaluation experiment |
| url | https://dujal.nl/article/view/12841 |
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