title: Accent and television journalism: evidence for the practice of speech language pathologists and audiologists.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the preferences and attitudes of listeners in relation to regional (RA) and softened accents (SA) in television journalism.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three television news presenters recorded carrier phrases and a standard text using RA and SA. The recordings were presented to 105 judges who listened to the word pairs and answered whether they perceived differences between the RA and SA, and the type of pronunciation that they preferred in the speech of television news presenters. Afterwards, they listened to the sentences and judged seven attributes in the contexts of RA and SA using a semantic differential scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The listeners perceived the difference between the regional and softened pronunciation (p<0.0001). They preferred the SA in the presenters' speech in all variants studied (p<0.0001). There was an association between linguistic variants and the judgment of attitudes (p=0.002). The listeners regarded the presence of SA in the presenters' speech as positive in all variants studied (p<0.0001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The listeners prefer and assign positive values to the SA in the speech of television journalists in all linguistic variants studied.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, João PessoaPBBrazil.
authors.forename: Leonardo Wanderley
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, program in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, João PessoaPB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ivonaldo Leidson Barbosa
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, program in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, João PessoaPB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Eveline Gonçalves
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, program in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, João PessoaPB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Larissa Nadjara Alves de
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, João PessoaPBBrazil.
authors.forename: Anna Alice Figueiredo de
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Almeida
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020452:Journalism; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013690:Television; D055815:Young Adult