Listeners? preferences regarding the regional accent on formal and informal communication context

Purpose to analyze the preferences of listeners as the regional accent and accent softened in the context of formal and informal communication. Methods three TV news presenter recorded vehicle-phrases in situations of regional and soft accent. The recordings were presented to 105 judges, who heard pairs of words and asked which of the two pronunciations preferred to talk about television news presenters (formal context), for native speakers of the local community (informal context) and to the speech itself (context informal). Results the presence of listeners preferred the understated accent in a formal context (presentation of television news in all language variants studied (p