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How foreign accent and speech errors affect speaker credibility
Machová, Kateřina ; Chládková, Kateřina (advisor) ; Houzar, Alžběta (referee)
Research into listeners' attitudes towards speakers with foreign accents and speech impediments has been in the spotlight for many years. This diploma thesis aims to contribute to the group of these researches in the Czech environment. Its topic is to compare the influence of foreign accent and speech impediment on the perceived credibility of the speaker. Specifically, the influence of French accent and rhotacism, i.e. articulation disorder when an individual is unable to pronounce the sound /r/ as required by the norm of his native language, was examined. As recorded material, a total of 55 sentences containing the sound /r/ in various contexts and positions and 14 sentences without this sound were compiled. From these stimuli, four versions of the perceptual test were created, always so that all four speakers appeared, in foreign accent and speech impediment conditions only once, in standard Czech twice - one speaker in sentences containing /r/, the other speaker in sentences not containing /r/. The first hypothesis was that the occurrence of rotacism and French accent would negatively affect the perceived credibility of the speaker compared to a speaker without a French accent and without a speech impediment. The second hypothesis was that speakers with French accents would be rated as less...
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