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SLST-S 150: VOICES OF AMERICA AND VOICES OF THE WORLD (3 credits)

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Studies the role of social factors in accent perception. Native and nonnative accents feed into social pecking orders, which cause listeners to evaluate speakers in various ways. This course addresses the nature of human accents in their cognitive and psychological dimensions: how social factors impact the learning of pronunciation, how accent affects social acceptance, and how interlocutors' reactions can be improved.

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