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| Title | Article: Why the Brain Doubts a Foreign Accent |
| Body | From http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-brain-doubts-accent Why the Brain Doubts a Foreign Accent What happens in the brain when you hear an accent--and why you are less likely to trust the speaker By Matthew S. McGlone and Barbara Breckinridge September 21, 2010 Of the many indignities international students endure, accent discrimination may be the most mortifying, in part because it is still widely accepted in our society. New research by University of Chicago psychologists Shiri Lev-Ari and Boaz Keysar suggests that prejudice is only part of the problem. Non-native accents make speech somewhat more difficult for native speakers to parse and thereby reduces “cognitive fluency” – i.e., the ease with which the brain processes stimuli. And this, they found, causes people to doubt the accuracy of what is said. Read the full article at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-brain-doubts-accent |
| Source | Scientific American |
| Inputdate | 2010-10-09 01:40:07 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-10-11 00:00:00 |
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