Attitudes of native and nonnative speakers of English toward various regional and social U.S. English accents

Abstract

v CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 Standard Language Ideology 2 Purpose 5 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 9 Standard American English 9 Standard Language Ideology 13 Attitudes of Native Speakers Toward Nonstandard U.S. English Accents 18 Nonnative Speakers' Judgments of U.S. English Accents 24 Attitude Formation by Nonnative Speakers 26 CHAPTER 3: METHODS AND MATERIALS 31 Recording of the Stimuli 31 Development of the Tape for Accent Study 34 Raters 35 Procedure 38 Data Analysis 40 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 42 Rating of Speech Samples 42 Discussion 57 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS 66 Applications 66 Recommendations 69 APPENDIX A: READING PASSAGES FOR SPEAKERS 71 APPENDIX B; BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR 73 RATERS APPENDIX C: RATING INSTRUMENT 75 APPENDIX D: SAMPLING FREQUENCY DISTRUBITIONS OF THE DATA 77

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