Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents

Published online on 29 september 2024

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Autores: McLaughlin, Drew J., Van Engen, Kristin J.
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palavra-chave:speech perception
foreign accent
social priming
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spelling Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language AccentsMcLaughlin, Drew J.Van Engen, Kristin J.speech perceptionforeign accentsocial primingPublished online on 29 september 2024Listeners use more than just acoustic information when processing speech. Social information, such as a speaker’s perceived race or ethnicity, can also affect the processing of the speech signal, in some cases facilitating perception (“social priming”). We aimed to replicate and extend this line of inquiry, examining effects of multiple social primes (i.e., a Middle Eastern, White, or East Asian face, or a control silhouette image) on the perception of Mandarin Chinese-accented English and Arabic-accented English. By including uncommon priming combinations (e.g., a Middle Eastern prime for a Mandarin accent), we aimed to test the specificity of social primes: For example, can a Middle Eastern face facilitate perception of both Arabic-accented English and Mandarin-accented English? Contrary to our predictions, our results indicated no facilitative social priming effects for either of the second language (L2) accents. Results for our examination of specificity were mixed. Trends in the data indicated that the combination of an East Asian prime with Arabic accent resulted in lower accuracy as compared with a White prime, but the combination of a Middle Eastern prime with a Mandarin accent did not (and may have actually benefited listeners to some degree). We conclude that the specificity of priming effects may depend on listeners’ level of familiarity with a given accent and/or racial/ethnic group and that the mixed outcomes in the current work motivate further inquiries to determine whether social priming effects for L2-accented speech may be smaller than previously hypothesized and/or highly dependent on listener experience.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship [grant number DGE-1745038] awarded to Drew J. McLaughlin, an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant [grant number 2116319] awarded to Kristin J. Van Engen and Drew J. McLaughlin, the Basque Government through the BERC 2022-2025 program, and by the Spanish State Research Agency through BCBL Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation CEX2020-001010 -S.SAGE202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/69776reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/GV/BERC2022-2025/info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/CEX2020-001010-S/https://journals.sagepub.com/home/LASinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess© The Author(s) 2023.oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/697762026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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title Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents
spellingShingle Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents
McLaughlin, Drew J.
speech perception
foreign accent
social priming
title_short Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents
title_full Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents
title_fullStr Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents
title_full_unstemmed Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents
title_sort Social Priming: Exploring the Effects of Speaker Race and Ethnicity on Perception of Second Language Accents
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv McLaughlin, Drew J.
Van Engen, Kristin J.
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Van Engen, Kristin J.
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv speech perception
foreign accent
social priming
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foreign accent
social priming
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