posted on 2017-01-13, 16:36authored bySara InceraSara Incera, Leah Bonath, Conor T. McLennan
We examined whether memory load affects participants’ ratings of native and foreign accents. The influence of memory load emerged for the high load condition in foreign speakers, but had no significant effect on the ratings of the native-accented speakers. These results have important theoretical and practical implications.