Replication Data for: Examining accent bias towards Turkish speakers of Dutch

Dataset abstract This dataset includes the experimental data collected of 175 Flemish Dutch-speaking participants in a speaker evaluation experiment assessing attitudes towards Turkish speakers of Dutch. For each participant, the dataset contains evaluation data for 8 individual speech stimuli. These data consist of 3 fixed sociolinguistic variables (the speaker's Name, Accent & Variety), 7-point Likert scale responses on 12 statements about the speaker's personality traits (Intelligent, Reliable, Self-assured, Highly-educated, Warm, Cool, Well-paid, Likeable, Tough, Helpful, Leader and Easy-going) and several relevant demographic variables (Gender, Year of birth, Region, Education, Language education, Nationality and Home Language).
Article abstract This contribution investigates the attitudes of Flemish first language speakers towards Turkish-Flemish speakers of Dutch as a second language. We conducted a 2 x 2 x 2 speaker evaluation experiment measuring the effects of accent (native vs. Turkish), language variety (standard vs. colloquial) and name (Flemish vs. Turkish) on attitudes vis-à-vis male speakers of Belgian Dutch. Our findings provide no consistent evidence of a negative bias vis-à-vis Turkish names in Flanders. While this result could be attributed to a social desirability bias, consistent downgrading of the Turkish accent on Superiority provides an indication of the existence of an accent bias that penalises ethnic minority accents in competence-related judgements.