Attitudes of native and nonnative speakers of English toward various regional and social U.S. English accents

Dent, Stacey R.

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“…Often denigrated as slang or improper English, AAVE is in fact a valid language system, with regular phonological and grammatical features such as -ing dropping (e.g., "goin"' vs. "going"), r-lessness (e.g., "fo"' vs. "four"), negative concord (e.g., "He ain't seen nothin"'), and the use of habitual be (e.g., "She be workin"' indicates "She's often working") (Pullum, 1999;Thomas, 2007;see Jones, 2015 for more on regional variations in AAVE). Like speakers of other non-standard dialects, speakers of AAVE are seen less favorably than speakers of the more standard General American English in most contexts (Payne et al, 2000;Koch et al, 2001;Dent, 2004;Rodriguez et al, 2004;Billings, 2005). Speakers of AAVE are seen as less competent, less sociable, less professional, less educated, and of poorer character than speakers of more standard American English (Payne et al, 2000;Koch et al, 2001;Dent, 2004;Billings, 2005).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Like speakers of other non-standard dialects, speakers of AAVE are seen less favorably than speakers of the more standard General American English in most contexts (Payne et al, 2000;Koch et al, 2001;Dent, 2004;Rodriguez et al, 2004;Billings, 2005). Speakers of AAVE are seen as less competent, less sociable, less professional, less educated, and of poorer character than speakers of more standard American English (Payne et al, 2000;Koch et al, 2001;Dent, 2004;Billings, 2005). As with the Southern U.S. dialect, many of the traits associated with AAVE are also associated with its dominant speakers: Black Americans (Devine and Elliot, 1995;Maddox and Gray, 2002).…”

Section: Sounding Blackmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Accordingly, the identities and dialects of those in power influence which dialects are considered standard (Lippi-Green, 1997). Standard dialects, such as General American English in the United States (U.S.) or Received Pronunciation in the United Kingdom (UK), are often viewed more favorably and seen as more prestigious than non-standard dialects (Dent, 2004;Morales et al, 2012), even by speakers of non-standard dialects (Anisfeld et al, 1962;Carter and Callesano, 2018). How those who use non-standard dialects are viewed often depends on how the people most closely associated with that dialect are perceived.…”

Section: Language As a Marker Of Social Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, people from the Southern U.S. are stereotyped as being uneducated, poor, and lazy (Slade and Narro, 2012). Unsurprisingly, speakers using a Southern U.S. dialect, a non-standard dialect of American English associated with this region, are seen as less wealthy, less intelligent, less healthy, and less attractive than speakers using a more standard American dialect (Dent, 2004;Phillips, 2010;Shamina, 2016). Further, linguistic features associated with Southern U.S. English are implicitly associated with blue collar jobs and lower intelligence (Campbell-Kibler, 2012;Loudermilk, 2015).…”

Section: Language As a Marker Of Social Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Sounding Black”: Speech Stereotypicality Activates Racial Stereotypes and Expectations About Appearance

Kurinec

Weaver

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Black Americans who are perceived as more racially phenotypical—that is, who possess more physical traits that are closely associated with their race—are more often associated with racial stereotypes. These stereotypes, including assumptions about criminality, can influence how Black Americans are treated by the legal system. However, it is unclear whether other forms of racial stereotypicality, such as a person’s way of speaking, also activate stereotypes about Black Americans. We investigated the links between speech stereotypicality and racial stereotypes (Experiment 1) and racial phenotype bias (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, participants listened to audio recordings of Black speakers and rated how stereotypical they found the speaker, the likely race and nationality of the speaker, and indicated which adjectives the average person would likely associate with this speaker. In Experiment 2, participants listened to recordings of weakly or strongly stereotypical Black American speakers and indicated which of two faces (either weakly or strongly phenotypical) was more likely to be the speaker’s. We found that speakers whose voices were rated as more highly stereotypical for Black Americans were more likely to be associated with stereotypes about Black Americans (Experiment 1) and with more stereotypically Black faces (Experiment 2). These findings indicate that speech stereotypicality activates racial stereotypes as well as expectations about the stereotypicality of an individual’s appearance. As a result, the activation of stereotypes based on speech may lead to bias in suspect descriptions or eyewitness identifications.

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Section: Sounding Blackmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Sounding Blackmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Language As a Marker Of Social Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Language As a Marker Of Social Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Sounding Black”: Speech Stereotypicality Activates Racial Stereotypes and Expectations About Appearance

Kurinec

Weaver

2021

Front. Psychol.

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“…Standard dialects, such as British Received Pronunciation, are portrayed quite positively than non-standard dialects (e.g., Morales, Scott, & Yorkston, 2012). For example, in the United States, the non-standard Southern American dialect is related to lower social status, lower education levels, and is viewed by many as the least acceptable use of American English (Dent, 2004). These contrasts play an essential role in sociolinguistic indicators for listeners, offering a full range of stereotypical details on speakers' status.…”

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confidence: 99%

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) Used by Rich Brian: A Sociolinguistic Investigation

Aryani

2020

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The author investigated the use of AAVE by Brian Imanuel or Rich Brian in his rap song lyrics. This study aimed to identify the grammatical features of AAVE in Brian's Amen album. Further, this study was also explored the underlying effect on Brian's use of AAVE. This study applied a descriptive-qualitative method. The context of the data in this study was song lyrics. The results are as follows: Brian rap song lyrics' contained 7 out of AAVE's 13 grammatical features. Those are copula absence, invariant be, completive done, specialized auxiliaries, negation, nominal, and ain't. The causal effect on the use of AAVE by Brian is influenced by the environment or neighborhoods where he grew up. Growing up around his friends who use AAVE in their daily conversation leads him to obtain AAVE's native-like control. Likewise, AAVE's use was the main effect of the linguistic marketplace in order to project identities in stable ways.

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Attitudes of native and nonnative speakers of English toward various regional and social U.S. English accents

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“Sounding Black”: Speech Stereotypicality Activates Racial Stereotypes and Expectations About Appearance

“Sounding Black”: Speech Stereotypicality Activates Racial Stereotypes and Expectations About Appearance

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) Used by Rich Brian: A Sociolinguistic Investigation

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