Is There a Bidialectal Advantage for Regionally Accented L2 Speech Comprehension? Evidence from a Speech Transcription Task
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2025-06-15
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This study investigates whether experience with regional varieties of L1 Dutch facilitates the comprehension of regionally accented L2 English. Twenty-three L1 speakers of Dutch listened to and transcribed sentences spoken in Scottish-accented English. A multiple regression analysis that included the percentage of content words that participants transcribed correctly as the outcome variable and a measure of their experience with regional varieties of Dutch as the main predictor failed to find a significant effect. Participants with higher amounts of exposure to regional varieties of Dutch (bidialectal participants) were found to have a slight advantage on the transcription task, and this advantage increased in magnitude when comparing only those participants with the highest and lowest relative amounts of experience, but neither of these group differences reached significance. As this study had low statistical power, no conclusion can be drawn about the effects of experience with variability in one's L1.
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