Language- based social preferences: the effect of dialect on friendship choices

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=T4IFNANcXU" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=T4IFNANcXU</a>

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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Language- based social preferences: the effect of dialect on friendship choices

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Objectives. This study investigated whether preschool and early school age children&apos;s friendship choices are modulated by talker&apos;s regional dialect, and whether the potential preference for local/native dialect would be attenuated by child&apos;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&apos;s preferences for their own dialect. Limitations. The recruitment procedures for both regions were kept identical in order to recruit comparably motivated participants&apos; parents, which is crucial to collect comparably reliable data using an online experiment administered by the children&apos;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&apos;s language, dialectal, and education background.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Language- based social preferences: the effect of dialect on friendship choices

Popis výsledku anglicky

Objectives. This study investigated whether preschool and early school age children&apos;s friendship choices are modulated by talker&apos;s regional dialect, and whether the potential preference for local/native dialect would be attenuated by child&apos;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&apos;s preferences for their own dialect. Limitations. The recruitment procedures for both regions were kept identical in order to recruit comparably motivated participants&apos; parents, which is crucial to collect comparably reliable data using an online experiment administered by the children&apos;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&apos;s language, dialectal, and education background.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Československá psychologie

ISSN

0009-062X

e-ISSN

1804-6436

Svazek periodika

67

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3-4

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

166-178

Kód UT WoS článku

001074999500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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