Mapping the psychology of accent-based discrimination

重音症很常见，但我们对人们为什么歧视某些口音的理解是有限的。该项目将开发一个全球口音英语数据库，这是一个试点语音样本的档案，可以极大地减少困扰现有研究的解释困难。这一资源使迄今为止对学校和工作场所造成口音偏见的原因进行了最有力的测试。实验还将研究重音偏见在什么情况下最明显，以及为什么它对女性的影响特别强烈。了解支撑口音偏见的机制是减少这一威胁澳大利亚作为一个成功的、在经济上至关重要的多元文化社会地位的问题的先决条件。

Accentism is commonplace, but our understanding of why people discriminate against certain accents is limited. This project will develop a Global Database for Accented English, an archive of piloted speech samples that dramatically reduces interpretational difficulties plaguing existing research. This resource enables the most robust test to date of what causes accent bias in schools and workplaces. Experiments will also examine the conditions under which accent bias is most pronounced, and why its effects are particularly strong for women. Understanding mechanisms underpinning accent bias is a precondition for reducing a problem that threatens Australia’s status as a successful and economically vital multicultural society.