Why don't we believe non-native speakers? The influence of accent on credibility

By Shiri Lev-Ari, Boaz Keysar. 2010

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Making the Truth Stick & the Myths Fade: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology (2016, background): “Volunteers rated statements recited by native English speakers more truthful than statements recited by speakers of accented English (whose native tongues included Polish, Turkish, Italian, and Korean).(40)”
Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users (2015, background): “Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) showed that people perceive statements in an FA as less truthful when spoken by non-native speakers, possibly because listeners encounter difficulty when hearing an FA which reduces ‘processing fluency’.”
Disentangling accent from comprehensibility (2012, background): “…can help refine the assessment of bilingual and L2 speaking ability, but also can clarify the linguistic influences that feed into negative stereotyping based on accent (Lippi-Green, 2011) and that lead to the perception of less comprehensible speech as being less truthful (Lev-Ari & Keysar, 2010).”
The mind in the machine: Anthropomorphism increases trust in an autonomous vehicle (2014, unknown): “…to one's own (Anisfeld, Bogo, & Lambert, 1962; Dixon, Mahoney, & Cocks, 2002; Giles & Powesland, 1975; Kinzler, Corriveau, & Harris, 2011; Kinzler, Dupoux, & Spelke, 2007; Lev-Ari & Keysar, 2010), an effect that may be partially mediated by differences in the attribution of humanlike mental states.”
The effect of Hispanic accents on employment decisions (2012, background): “In a recent study, Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) demonstrated that statements delivered by both a mild-accented and a heavy-accented”
The INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Deception, Sincerity & Native Language (2016, background): “For future studies, we can even relate the first task, deceptive speech, with the recognition of L1: [25] showed that a foreign accent with lower intelligibility can cause non-native speakers to sound less credible – thus, in specific settings, maybe even deceiving? It is likely that phonetic and ot”
The fluency principle: Why foreign accent strength negatively biases language attitudes (2017, background): “Consistent with this claim, Lev-Ari and Keysar (2010) found that American listeners rated speakers with heavier foreign accents as more difficult to understand than speakers with milder foreign accents (see also Munro & Derwing, 1995a, 1995b).”