What It Means to Be an Outsider: How Exposure to Regional Variation Shapes Children’s Awareness of Regional Accents in Their Native Language

Effects of Language Background on the Development of Sociolinguistic Awareness: The Perception of Accent Variation in Monolingual and Multilingual 5- to 7-Year-Old Children

“…Interestingly, children with parents from outside Yorkshire were also better able to recognize a familiar talker (in this case, a familiar teacher) using phonetic accent features. In contrast, Beck (2016) found that early exposure to multiple regional varieties, again through a parent with a different accent from that used in the local community, did not lead to better discrimination between different regional accents. One possibility is that this is because the task -an ABX discrimination task in which children heard and compared isolated words -was too easy and thus did not enable more fine-grained differences between the different listener groups to emerge.…”

Situating sociolinguistics: Coupland –Theoretical Debates

“…In particular, I have in mind research that explores the various social, linguistic and cognitive influences on how sociolinguistic meanings are perceived and ascribed, including the effects of individual exposure (e.g. Clopper and Pisoni 2006;Levon and Fox 2014;Beck 2016), the presence of additional linguistic and other semiotic cues (e.g. Johnson, Strand and D'Imperio 1999;Hay, Warren and Drager 2006;Pharao et al 2014), social stereotypes and ideologies (e.g.…”