Description
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Dataset abstract This dataset includes the experimental data collected of 175 Flemish Dutch-speaking participants in a speaker evaluation experiment assessing attitudes towards Turkish speakers of Dutch. For each participant, the dataset contains evaluation data for 8 individual speech stimuli. These data consist of 3 fixed sociolinguistic variables (the speaker's Name, Accent & Variety), 7-point Likert scale responses on 12 statements about the speaker's personality traits (Intelligent, Reliable, Self-assured, Highly-educated, Warm, Cool, Well-paid, Likeable, Tough, Helpful, Leader and Easy-going) and several relevant demographic variables (Gender, Year of birth, Region, Education, Language education, Nationality and Home Language). (2024-09-16)
Article abstract This contribution investigates the attitudes of Flemish first language speakers towards Turkish-Flemish speakers of Dutch as a second language. We conducted a 2 x 2 x 2 speaker evaluation experiment measuring the effects of accent (native vs. Turkish), language variety (standard vs. colloquial) and name (Flemish vs. Turkish) on attitudes vis-à-vis male speakers of Belgian Dutch. Our findings provide no consistent evidence of a negative bias vis-à-vis Turkish names in Flanders. While this result could be attributed to a social desirability bias, consistent downgrading of the Turkish accent on Superiority provides an indication of the existence of an accent bias that penalises ethnic minority accents in competence-related judgements. (2024-09-16)
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Keyword
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linguistic data, sociolinguistics, experimental data, speaker evaluation experiment, language attitudes, accent bias, Belgian Dutch, Turkish, Flemish, second language, Factor Analysis, Mixed-Effects Modelling |
Related Publication
| Van Puyvelde, M., Van Hoof, S., Lybaert, C. & Plevoets, K. (2023). Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch: A speaker evaluation experiment. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 12 https://doi.org/10.51751/dujal12841.
doi: 10.51751/dujal12841 |