Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition

Title
Swedish is beautiful, Danish is ugly? Investigating the link between language attitudes and spoken word recognition
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Schuppert, Anja
Hilton, Nanna Haug
Gooskens, Charlotte
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Place of publication
Germany
DOI
10.1515/ling-2015-0003
UNE publication id
une:19585
Abstract
This paper investigates the hypothesis that attitudes towards a linguistic variety and intelligibility of that variety are linked. This is done by eliciting language attitudes and word recognition scores in 154 Danish and Swedish schoolchildren and adolescents between 7 and 16 years. Language attitudes towards the neighboring language are elicited by means of a matched-guise experiment while word recognition is tested by auditorily presenting the participants with 50 spoken stimuli in their neighboring language (Danish for Swedish children and vice versa) in a picture-pointing task. Results revealed that while Danish children held more positive attitudes towards Swedish than vice versa and their word recognition scores were generally higher than those of their Swedish peers, the correlation between these two variables is very low, indicating that the two variables are only loosely linked.
Link
Citation
Linguistics, 53(2), p. 375-403
ISSN
1613-396X
0024-3949
Start page
375
End page
403

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