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Dutch listeners’ responses to Dutch, British and American English accents in three contexts.
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In: Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 10 (2021) (2021)
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Abstract:
The aim of this study was to assess Dutch listeners’ responses to native-accented Englishes compared with Dutch-accented English in terms of speech understandability and speech evaluations in three professional communication contexts. In a matched-guise experiment Dutch listeners (N=392) responded to a Dutch English, a standard British and American accent in terms of speech understandability (intelligibility, comprehensibility, interpretability) and speaker evaluations (status, affect, dynamism). Dutch listeners evaluated these accents in three communication contexts: Lecture, Audio Tour, Job Pitch. Only context affected speech understandability: comprehensibility and interpretability were higher for the Lecture compared to the Audio Tour and the Job Pitch. Accent only negatively affected status evaluations for Dutch-accented English. Context only evoked more affect in the Audio Tour and the Lecture than in the Job Pitch. Our main conclusion is that Dutch-accented English negatively impacts status, but not understanding, affect and dynamism. Context impacts understanding and affect.
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Keyword:
communication context; Dutch-accented English; matched-guise technique; P1-1091; Philology. Linguistics; speaker evaluations; speech understandability
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URL: https://doi.org/10.51751/dujal9365
https://doaj.org/article/39a09c71d48241d49290497703ae9c25
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