Effects of prestige on accentual convergence in shadowing tasks.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Fu, Kai Li.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54971
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Accents carry social biases, which may affect language attitudes towards a certain culture or community. Research has shown that speech convergence or imitation is socially-mediated, both implicitly and explicitly. Hence language attitudes may influence the extent of imitation towards a stimulus. Si...