Searching for the “native” speaker: A preregistered conceptual replication and extension of Reid, Trofimovich, and O’Brien (2019)
Bianca Brown; Botagoz Tusmagambet; Valentino Rahming; Chun-Ying Tu; Michael B. DeSalvo; Seth Wiener · 2023 · Applied Psycholinguistics
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“Our internet-based study failed to replicate Reid et al.”
Abstract
Abstract This study conceptually replicated and extended Reid, Trofimovich, and O’Brien (2019), who found that native English speakers could be biased positively (or negatively) relative to a control condition in terms of how they rate non-native English speech. Our internet-based study failed to replicate Reid et al. across a wider population sample of “native” speakers ( n = 189). Listeners did not change how they rated non-native English speech after social bias orientations and performed similarly across all five measures of speech and across age and race (Asian, Black, and Caucasian). We
Abstract by Bianca Brown; Botagoz Tusmagambet; Valentino Rahming; Chun-Ying Tu; Michael B. DeSalvo; Seth Wiener, Applied Psycholinguistics (2023) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1017/s0142716423000127