Is there an Interlanguage Speech Credibility Benefit?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F16%3A33159033" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/16:33159033 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/topling.2016.17.issue-1/topling-2016-0003/topling-2016-0003.xml" target="_blank" >http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/topling.2016.17.issue-1/topling-2016-0003/topling-2016-0003.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/topling-2016-0003" target="_blank" >10.1515/topling-2016-0003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Is there an Interlanguage Speech Credibility Benefit?

Original language description

Some (though not all) previous studies documented the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB), i.e. the greater intelligibility of non-native (relative to native) speech to non-native than native listeners. Moreover, some studies (again not all) found that native listeners consider foreign-accented statements as less truthful than native-sounding ones. We join these two lines of research, asking whether foreign-accented statements sound more credible to non-native than to native listeners, and whether difficult-to-process (less comprehensible) utterances are less credible. In two experiments we measure intelligibility, comprehensibility, and credibility of native and foreign-accented statements for native listeners and non-native listeners matched or mismatched in L1 with the non-native talkers. We find an ISIB in both matched and mismatched non-native listeners, and an analogous matched comprehensibility benefit. However, we obtain no evidence of an interlanguage speech credibility benefit. Instead, both matched and mismatched non-native listeners tend to trust native statements more (i.e. statements produced by their target-language models). For native listeners, we do not confirm the tendency to mistrust non-native statements, but we do find a moderate correlation between the comprehensibility and credibility of foreign-accented utterances, giving limited support to the hypothesis that decreased perceptual fluency leads to decreased credibility.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Topics in Linguistics

ISSN

1337-7590

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

30-44

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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