Language Proficiency Affects Children's Social Reasoning about Native- and Foreign-Accented Speakers

Author

Hyesung Grace Hwang, Washington University in St. LouisFollow

Date of Award

Spring 5-15-2014

Author's School

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Author's Department

Psychology

Degree Name

Master of Arts (AM/MA)

Degree Type

Thesis

Abstract

The present study investigated how children weigh a person’s linguistic proficiency relative to the type of accent the person speaks with. Furthermore, we investigated if children’s reasoning about linguistic proficiency changes across their own linguistic and socio-cognitive development. We also explored whether children’s social preference judgments differed depending on linguistic error types (e.g., grammaticality or semantics).

Language

English (en)

Chair and Committee

Lori Markson

Committee Members

Rebecca Treiman, Mitchell Sommers

Comments

Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7D798C1

Recommended Citation

Hwang, Hyesung Grace, "Language Proficiency Affects Children's Social Reasoning about Native- and Foreign-Accented Speakers" (2014). Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 315.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/315