'KKWETC' Indian Face Database

Standard varieties are often perceived as morally superior compared with nonstandard varieties (Hill 2008). Consequently, these differences lead to ideologies that racialize nonstandard varieties (Rosa 2016), and increase the negative stereotypes towards nonstandard varieties (Giles and Watson 2013). One outlet of such stereotypes can be observed with speech intelligibility and accentedness judgements. This study examines whether seeing a White or a South Asian face impacts listeners’ perception of American, British, and Indian English and to what extent listeners’ social network diversity plays a role in predicting their perception of speech. Results indicated that intelligibility scores decreased and accentedness judgements increased for all varieties when speech was paired with South Asian faces. However, listeners with less racially diverse social networks had the highest accentedness judgements. Understanding how to account for the emergence and behavioral implications of different English varieties is a pressing question, and these results shed light on how English varieties are perceived. The implications will be discussed in light of language teaching, linguistic practices, and language research.

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“…Asian faces were taken from the KKWETC face database (Satone 2017). White faces were taken from the Chicago face database (Ma et al 2015).…”

Section: Visual Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgements in Racially Diverse and Non-diverse Groups

Kutlu

Tiv

Wulff

et al. 2021

Applied Linguistics

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“…For South Asian faces, pictures of two female faces were randomly selected from the KKWETC face database (Satone, 2017). For White faces, two female pictures were randomly selected from the Chicago face database (Ma, Correll, & Wittenbrink, 2015).…”

Section: Visual Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Now You See Me, Now You Mishear Me: Raciolinguistic accounts of speech perception in different English varieties

Kutlu

2020

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Listeners can access information about a speaker such as age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background upon hearing their speech. However, it is still not clear ifHere, an audio-visual (matched-guise) test is used to measure can be modulated depending on the type of face that they see. American and Indian English were used as different English varieties and presented with either a White female face or a South Asian female face. Results show that for Indian English compared to American English.Importantly, the increase in accentedness judgments was also observed when both American English and Indian English were presented with a South Asian face compared to a White face.These findings suggest that linguistic evaluations are modulated by non-linguistic factors and that speech perception is socially gated.

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“…For visual stimuli, we used two previously normed and controlled face databases. South Asian faces were taken from the KKWETC face database (Satone 2017). White faces were taken from the Chicago face database (Ma et al 2015).…”

Section: Visual Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgments in Racially Diverse and Non-Diverse Groups

Kutlu¹,

Tiv²,

Wulff³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Upon hearing someone’s speech, a listener can make inferences regarding the speakers’ age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, it is not clear to what extent listeners use these factors to decode the speech signal itself. Here, we use an audio-visual task to measure whether listeners’ accentedness and intelligibility judgments (i.e., speech perception) change as a function of the racial information that they see on a computer screen. American, British, and Indian English were used as three different English varieties and presented with either a White female face or a South Asian female face. Results showed that listeners’ ability to transcribe sentences (i.e., intelligibility) decreased and their accentedness judgments increased for all varieties when speech was paired with South Asian faces. However, this increase was modulated by participants’ social network diversity. In short, the racial diversity in people’s social network impacts accentedness judgments but not speech perception.

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'KKWETC' Indian Face Database

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The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgements in Racially Diverse and Non-diverse Groups

The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgements in Racially Diverse and Non-diverse Groups

Now You See Me, Now You Mishear Me: Raciolinguistic accounts of speech perception in different English varieties

The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgments in Racially Diverse and Non-Diverse Groups

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