Do faces speak volumes? Social expectations in speech comprehension and evaluation across three age groups.

ABSTRACT: An unresolved issue in social perception concerns the effect of perceived ethnicity on speech processing. Bias-based accounts assume conscious misunderstanding of native speech in the case of a speaker classification as nonnative, resulting in negative ratings and poorer comprehension. In contrast, exemplar models of socially indexed speech perception suggest that such negative effects arise only when a contextual cue to the social identity is misleading, i.e. when ethnicity and speech clash with listeners' expectations. To address these accounts, and to assess ethnicity effects across different age groups, three non-university populations (N = 172) were primed with photographs of Asian and white European women and asked to repeat and rate utterances spoken in three accents (Korean-accente

SUBMITTER: Hanulikova A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8553087 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature