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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Regional accents are subtle paralinguistic cues.
  • Accent perception can influence social cognition and spatial reasoning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how regional accents affect listeners' geographic perspective-taking.
  • To determine if accent familiarity influences the coherence of statements about proximity and distance.

Main Methods:

  • Participants listened to first-person statements about approaching locations (Tenerife or Madrid).
  • Statements featured either a local or a distal regional accent.
  • Participants judged the coherence of the statements.

Main Results:

  • Statements were judged more coherent when the accent matched the geographical distance (local accent/nearby place; distal accent/faraway place).
  • A local accent maintained the listener's geographic perspective.
  • A distal accent induced a shift to the speaker's perspective.

Conclusions:

  • Regional accent is a significant factor in modulating geographic perspective-taking.
  • Accent influences how listeners process spatial information in language.
  • This highlights the role of subtle auditory cues in cognitive processes.