A meta‐analysis of the effects of speakers' accents on interpersonal evaluations

By Jairo N. Fuertes, W. Gottdiener, Helena Martin, Tracey C. Gilbert, Howard Giles. 2012

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Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users (2015, background): “A meta-analysis of 20 studies by Fuertes et al. (2011) indicated that ‘non-standard’ accents (defined by them as those spoken by minorities and considered foreign) had a very strong negative impact on evaluations of status, solidarity and dynamism relative to ‘standard’ accents (defined as the…”
The fluency principle: Why foreign accent strength negatively biases language attitudes (2017, background): “…speakers may sometimes be upgraded by members of their ingroup on solidarity traits vis-à-vis standard speakers (e.g., Luhman, 1990), this covert prestige typically does not extend to foreign-accented speakers who tend to be downgraded on solidarity traits as well (Fuertes et al., 2012).”