The prefrontal cortex exerts top-down influences on several aspects of higher-order
cognition by functioning as a filtering mechanism that biases bottom-up sensory information …

The study of language attitudes is concerned with the social meanings people assign to
language and its users. With roots in social psychology nearly a century ago, language …

The extent to which negative bias toward foreign‐accented speakers originates from social
categorization (in‐group/out‐group categorization) and/or from processing fluency (ease in …

Two experiments examined the effects of processing fluency—that is, the ease with which
speech is processed—on language attitudes toward native-and foreign-accented speech …

Two experiments tested the prediction that heavy foreign-accented speakers are evaluated
more negatively than mild foreign-accented speakers because the former are perceived as …

Upon hearing someone's speech, a listener can access information such as the speaker's
age, gender identity, socioeconomic status, and their linguistic background. However, an …

Understanding spoken language requires mapping acoustic input onto stored phonological
and lexical representations. Speech tokens, however, are notoriously variable: they fluctuate …

Language attitudes are evaluative reactions to different language varieties. They reflect, at
least in part, two sequential cognitive processes: social categorization and stereotyping …

This study examined Americans' attitudes toward standard American English (SAE) and
nine, non-Anglo foreign accents: Arabic, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Hispanic, Mandarin …

This study tested semantic and grammatical processing of native-and foreign-accented
speech. Monolinguals with little experience with foreign-accented speech listened to …