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Jan 17, 2020 · When rated by other countries, British accents are most likely to be described as “sophisticated” (32%), “stylish” (30%) and “professional” (29%). Americans and Canadians are most likely to find a British accent “sexy” (24% and 19% respectively), whilst French speakers think that the British accent as “cute”.
May 23, 2017 · Entire stereotypes have built up around different accents - New Yorkers are rude, British RP speakers are educated, Yorkshire speakers are trustworthy, Southern Americans are pleasant, and ...
- Chi Luu
However, it turns out we still cling on to a lot of stereotypes about UK regional accents, judging peoples’ attractiveness, trustworthiness, friendliness, and even intelligence on the way they speak.
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We see slightly better news when we look at whether accent stereotypes affect whether people think a person is professionally competent, especially when they hear a real voice interviewing for a job in an elite profession. When we played real audio clips of job interview candidates to the survey participants, the differences people drew between acc...
Of course, the most important group to test for this question is those who actually hold the power: professional hiring panels. This is especially important in Britain, with its history of inequality in elite university admissions and professional hiring, and a parallel history of accent prestige. If British employers use accent to guess at a perso...
This doesn’t mean that lawyers have no biases at all. First, we only examined one factor in hiring. Discrimination can happen at many junctures along a career path. A person can be discriminated against before they even have a chance to speak. A British studyfound that CVs with ethnic minority names received significantly fewer replies from potenti...
- Devyani Sharma
Nov 26, 2019 · In a new survey of attitudes to 38 different British accents, we found that exactly the same accents continue to attract high prestige - received pronunciation, the Queen’s English, French-accented English, Edinburgh English, one’s own accent - and the same accents continue to receive low ratings, particularly ethnic minority accents ...
May 17, 2013 · For such a small, densely populated land mass full of people sharing a common language, the UK has a huge variety of distinct regional accents, often existing very close to each other – Brummie, Glaswegian, Scouse, Cockney, Multicultural London English (MLE) and Geordie, to name a very few.
Oct 26, 2020 · There is a hierarchy of accents in Britain which has changed little over the years. The accents of Britain’s highest classes are seen as neutral, “accentless” and correct, while others are seen...
