{"pk":25462,"title":"Children's early perceptual and late-emerging social sensitivity to accented speech","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>How early in life, and in what situations, are children sensitive to speakers' accents? Some researchers have suggested that accent is an early-developing, perhaps intrinsic, signal of group membership. However, other studies find little sensitivity to or awareness of accent in young children. Three experiments reported here examine 3-5-yearolds' comprehension of, and social decision-making with, a familiar (US English) accent and a foreign (Dutch) accent. Dutch accents were comprehended less well, particularly when salient phonological competitors were present, but social sensitivity was fairly weak until age 6-7 years. The latter finding contrasts with accounts positing early (perhaps innate) social sensitivity to accents.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"language development"},{"word":"accent"},{"word":"socialstereotyping"},{"word":"word recognition"},{"word":"eye tracking"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19v7z5v8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sarah","middle_name":"C","last_name":"Creel","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego","department":""},{"first_name":"Emilie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Seubert","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25462/galley/15086/download/"}]}