Integrated Language Sciences and Technology (ILST) Initiative, University of Pennsylvania.
Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2023 Sep;49(9):1505-1521. doi: 10.1037/xlm0001197. Epub 2023 Apr 20.
Speaking with a foreign accent has often been thought to carry several disadvantages. Here, we probe a potential social of non-native compared to native speakers using spoken utterances that either obey or violate the pragmatic principle of Informativeness. In Experiment 1, we show that listeners form different impressions of native and non-native speakers with identical pragmatic behavior: in a context in which omitting information could be deceptive, people rated underinformative speakers more negatively on trustworthiness and interpersonal appeal compared to informative speakers, but this tendency was mitigated for speakers with foreign accents. Furthermore, this mitigating effect was strongest for less proficient non-native speakers who were presumably not fully responsible for their linguistic choices. In Experiment 2, social lenience for non-native speakers emerged even in a non-deceptive context. Contrary to previous studies, there was no consistent global bias against non-native speakers in either experiment, despite their lower intelligibility. Thus the fact that non-native speakers have imperfect control of the linguistic signal affects pragmatic inferences and social evaluation in ways that can lead to surprising social benefits. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
带有外国口音的说话常常被认为有几个不利之处。在这里，我们使用遵守或违反信息原则的口语话语来探究非本地母语者与本地母语者相比的潜在社会劣势。在实验 1 中，我们表明，听众对具有相同语用行为的本地和非本地说话者形成不同的印象：在信息省略可能具有欺骗性的情况下，与信息丰富的说话者相比，人们对信息量少的说话者在可信度和人际吸引力方面的评价更低，但对于带有外国口音的说话者，这种趋势有所缓解。此外，这种缓解效应在语言能力较低的非母语者中最强，因为他们可能无法完全为自己的语言选择负责。在实验 2 中，即使在非欺骗性语境中，对非本地母语者的社会宽容也会出现。与之前的研究相反，尽管非本地母语者的可理解性较低，但在这两个实验中，都没有针对非本地母语者的一致的全局偏见。因此，非本地母语者对语言信号的控制不完美会以一种可能导致令人惊讶的社会利益的方式影响语用推理和社会评价。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2023 APA，保留所有权利）。
