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| Title | Foreign Accents Make Speakers Seem Less Truthful to Listeners, Study Finds |
| Body | From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719164002.htm Foreign Accents Make Speakers Seem Less Truthful to Listeners, Study Finds July 20, 2010 A foreign accent undermines a person's credibility in ways that the speaker and the listener don't consciously realize, new research at the University of Chicago shows. To test the impact of accent on credibility, American participants were asked to judge the truthfulness of trivia statements by native or non-native speakers of English, such as, "A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can." Despite knowing the speakers were reciting from a script, the participants judged as less truthful the statements coming from people with foreign accents. On a truthfulness scale prepared for the experiment, the participants gave native speakers a score of 7.5, people with mild accents a score of 6.95 and people with heavy accents a score of 6.84. Read the full article at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719164002.htm |
| Source | Science Daily |
| Inputdate | 2010-08-15 01:24:42 |
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