Language- based social preferences: the effect of dialect on friendship choices
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.67.3-4.166" target="_blank" >10.51561/cspsych.67.3-4.166</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Language- based social preferences: the effect of dialect on friendship choices
Original language description
Objectives. This study investigated whether preschool and early school age children's friendship choices are modulated by talker's regional dialect, and whether the potential preference for local/native dialect would be attenuated by child's more diverse language experience. Methods. An online forced-choice experiment was administered. Each of 12 trials contained a pair of sentences recorded by two different same-sex speakers: one was speaking the Central Bohemian variety of Czech and the other speaking the phonetically distinct Nothern Moravian-Silesian dialect. Data were collected from total 81 participants, aged 5 to 8 years from both regions, who, upon listening to both sentences in each trial, indicated, which of the two children they would like to play with. Results. A generalized linear mixed-effects model revealed a statistically significant interaction of age and participant location (average estimated effect size = 16.4 %, SE = 8.1 %, z = 2.031, p =.042). Pairwise comparisons showed that younger Moravian-Silesian children had a stronger preference for their own local dialect than younger Central Bohemian children, and marginally also than the older Moravian-Silesian children. Conclusions. The results can be explained by considering that older Moravian-Silesian children have a more diverse language experience (associated with starting school), similarly to Central Bohemian children of any age who have a more diverse language experience due to a greater linguistic variation in their region. Such richer, more varied language experience might then attenuate children's preferences for their own dialect. Limitations. The recruitment procedures for both regions were kept identical in order to recruit comparably motivated participants' parents, which is crucial to collect comparably reliable data using an online experiment administered by the children's parents. This however resulted in a relatively small sample of the younger group of Moravian-Silesian children. Followup research, ideally lab-based, is needed to test the replicability of the present findings, and to collect more detailed information on children's language, dialectal, and education background.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Československá psychologie
ISSN
0009-062X
e-ISSN
1804-6436
Volume of the periodical
67
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3-4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
166-178
UT code for WoS article
001074999500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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