Navigating accent bias in German: children's social preferences for a second-language accent over a first-language regional accent
Spoken language conveys rich sociolinguistic information about a speaker's language background. Previous research indicates that both monolingual and bilingual children use this information when making social decisions. They prefer local speakers whose accent or variety matches their own over s...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2024-04-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Language Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/flang.2024.1357682/full |