{"pk":29974,"title":"The development of accent-based friendship preferences: Age and languageexposure matter","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that children exhibit strong,language-based social biases, preferring speakers of theirlocally dominant accent over foreign language or foreign-accented speakers. Even when regularly exposed to multiplelanguages or to speakers with non-local accents, elementaryschool-aged children nevertheless display strong languagebiases, preferring to be friends with native speakers over non-native speakers. The present study revisited this issue,examining whether routine exposure to additional languagesand/or non-local accents influences language-based friendpreferences. Three- to 5-year-old children (N = 183) growingup in a large, multicultural, North American City with at least70% English exposure were presented with pairs of children—one speaking native-accented English and the other speakingforeign-accented English—and were asked to choose whomthey wanted to be friends with. While accent exposure was notfound to predict children’s preference, there was a significanteffect of language exposure, such that greater experience withmultiple languages reduced biases for native-accentedspeakers.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Language Attitudes"},{"word":"friend preference"},{"word":"developmental sociolinguistics"}],"section":"Poster Session 3","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66b175js","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Thomas","middle_name":"","last_name":"St. Pierre","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto Mississauga","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"K.","last_name":"Johnson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto Mississauga","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29974/galley/19828/download/"}]}