Children Treat Grammatical Errors Differently for Native and Non-Native Speakers

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 855130
• Main Authors: Rett, Alexandra, White, Katherine S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 22.04.2022
• Subjects: accent-based expectations; foreign accents; grammatical errors; Psychology; speaker reliability; speech errors; accent-based expectations; grammatical errors; foreign accents; speaker reliability; speech errors

Both children and adults demonstrate biases against non-native speakers. However, in some situations, adults act more generously towards non-native speakers than towards native speakers. In particular, adults judge errors from non-native speakers less harshly, presumably because they expect such err...