2014-10-30

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The surprising effects behind our accents.

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CORRECTION: It's meant to be "rhotic" and "non-rhotic" accent. Very sorry, I was confused.

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References:

0:07 Ramachandran, V. S., & Hubbard, E. M. (2001). Synaesthesia--a window into perception, thought and language. Journal of consciousness studies, 8(12), 3-34. http://ww2.psy.cuhk.edu.hk/~mael/papers/RamachandranHubbard_Synaesthesia.pdf

0:24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

0:58 Kuhl, P. K., Stevens, E., Hayashi, A., Deguchi, T., Kiritani, S., & Iverson, P. (2006). Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. Developmental science, 9(2), F13-F21. http://ilabs.washington.edu/kuhl/pdf/Kuhl_etal_2006.pdf

1:23 http://mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents

2:13 Lev-Ari, S., & Keysar, B. (2010). Why don't we believe non-native speakers? The influence of accent on credibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 1093-1096. http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/LevAriKeysar.pdf

2:33 Dixon, J. A., Mahoney, B., & Cocks, R. (2002). Accents of guilt? Effects of regional accent, race, and crime type on attributions of guilt. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21(2), 162-168. http://mdhauser.blog.com/files/2012/02/Dixon2002Journal-of-Language-and-Social-Psychology.pdf

3:10 Leitman, D. I., Wolf, D. H., Ragland, J. D., Laukka, P., Loughead, J., Valdez, J. N., ... & Gur, R. (2010). " It's not what you say, but how you say it": a reciprocal temporo-frontal network for affective prosody. Frontiers in human neuroscience,4, 19. http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00019/full

3:10 Mitchell, R. L., Elliott, R., Barry, M., Cruttenden, A., & Woodruff, P. W. (2003). The neural response to emotional prosody, as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuropsychologia, 41(10), 1410-1421. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393203000174