Szakay, A.,
Babel, M., & King, J. (2012). Sociophonetic markers facilitate translation
priming: Maori English GOAT – a different kind of animal. In H. Prichard (ed.),
UPenn Working Papers in Linguistics, 18: Selected Papers from NWAV 40, pp. 137
– 146.
Why it is inspiring: The
authors extend the work of Sumner & Samuel (2009) and find that the
presence of a phonetic variant that indexes the speaker as a member of a
particular ethnic/dialect group can serve as a prime in a cross-language
lexical decision task. This result is
consistent with other work showing that socioindexical expectations enhance
perception.
Something to think about: It is
also possible that the observed effect is due to an inhibitory mismatch between
Maori and Pakeha English.
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