Activity: Talk or presentation › Poster/paper presentation › Academic
Description
Two accent recognition experiments find that listeners are not better at recognising accents in high-frequency words than in low-frequency words, and that they are able to recognise accents in non-words. This suggests it is not lexical exemplars (as hypothesised in Exemplar Theory) which are central to processing social meaning, but rather sub-lexical linguistic units, such as allophones.