Evaluating English Accents WorldWide Results: GERMANY
Germany Personality Trait Means
66 University of Tübingen students
32 female, 34 male, mean age 23.8
(collected by Frank Schlichting and Kirk Sullivan)
German Students' Accent Guesses
majority/plurality percentage for each speaker in boldface;
major erroneous guesses italicised
Points to note:
Here we see the two NAm voices are the clear leaders in the six solidarity traits,
but the RP-speaking EE male leads in the rest.
The EE male is clearly well ahead of the two NAm voices in the status traits;
his scores are significantly higher in all four traits (very significantly so in
all but occupation).
He also leads in the power and competence traits, but is not significantly higher
than the NAm female.
The EE female voice rates very low overall, lower than the NZE male voice in all
traits except the solidarity ones. (-t) glottalisation is clearly a salient trait to
these L2 speakers of English.
Created by:
Owen Baxter,
Modified: 13 Mar 2002, Made with Macintosh
