Effects of prestige on accentual convergence in shadowing tasks.

• Main Author: Fu, Kai Li.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54971
• Institution: 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...