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Accent bias: Does personality influence how people perceive the prestige of non-standard accents?

on June 30, 2020

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Read this interesting poster about accent bias that I did for a sociolinguistics class!

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Bilingual Brains

(originally submitted as a coursework for PLIN1303 on 01/05/2018, edited 22/06/2019) Before 1960s, bilingualism was viewed as a disadvantage. It was once believed that bilingual children acquire languages slower than monolinguals because learning two languages at once confuses the brain. A psychology study even suggests that mental retardation is caused by the use of foreign language at home (Goodenough, 1926). However, attitudes towards bilingualism has changed in today’s world. Over half of the world’s population speak two or more languages now (Marian & Shook, 2012). Bilingualism or multilingualism has become a trend due to the increase in language exchange from globalisation. Moreover, research in the past 50 decades have shown that being able to speak more than one language is beneficial to brain development. There may be certain drawbacks of being a bilingual, however, the advantages of bilingual brains outweigh its disadvantages. In this essay, I will first explain why

Multilingualism as an identity signal: a focus on phonetic variation in Asian communities in English speaking countries

(Submitted on May 2020 for UCL PLIN0032 Coursework) Research in sociolinguistics has demonstrated that speakers use Fine Phonetic Detail (FPD) to establish group boundaries and personal identities. This can also be seen in multilingual communities where issues of identity and culture are major as being multilingual adds on to the groups and potential identities that one can belong to. Switching between identities can impact the use of language. Moreover, when languages are in contact, linguistic variations are likely to happen. In this essay, I will explore the phonetic and phonological variation in multilingual communities and show that these variations are affected by social factors. I would like to focus on two Asian communities in English speaking countries, British Indians and American Chinese. First, I will analyse the variation of retroflex stops in Punjabi-English bilinguals in London. I will also look at Indian accents in Glasgow Asians. Then, I will explore the raising of /

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