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 Intelligibility of accents: The role of context cannot be ignored here as an utterance essentially becomes intelligible in its linguistic and social contexts. Speakers converge or diverge depending on the context of situation. The use of neutral attributes for the intelligibility of ethnolects indicates that ethnolects are intelligible to Cameroonians and so serve a community function.  Perception and interpretation: Sometimes listeners' perceptions may not just contain a phonetic / phonological mismatch, but also an interpretation of a pre-conceived abstraction, the stereotype. This leads to judgmental evaluations on accents so that what is 'wrong' and what is 'correct' is more in the minds and attitudes of the listeners than in the real sounds produced by the speakers. However, these folk-mind attitudes cannot be ignored, as they constitute the corpus for attitudinal studies on CamE. It can be concluded that Cameroonians' social attitudes towards variation in pronunciation do not just reflect linguistic quality per se but are also a manifestation of a social practice which replicates an awareness of the prestige ascribed to a variety by the community. Therefore, the conflictin

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)