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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/glasgow-accent-is-tops-for-japanese.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Glaswegians have the most attractive accent for Japanese speakers of English, a new study has revealed" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-glasgow-accent-is-tops-for-japanese.jpg" alt="Glaswegians have the most attractive accent for Japanese speakers of English, a new study has revealed"/></a></p>
<p>Glaswegians have the most attractive accent for Japanese speakers of English, a new study has revealed.</p>
<p>The Glasgow accent came out on top for social attractiveness to Japanese people learning to speak English, a survey by Northumbria University found.</p>
<p>Those questioned listened to speakers of six varieties of English and rated them on a range of personality traits.</p>
<p>Robert McKenzie, senior lecturer in sociolinguistics at the university, questioned more than 500 people to study how worldwide perceptions of the English language are changing.</p>
<p>The six accents used were from Alabama and Ohio in America, the Glasgow dialect, Scottish standard English, moderately-accented Japanese English and heavily-accented Japanese English.</p>
<p>Dr McKenzie said: &#8220;It seems to be that globalisation, and especially the resultant worldwide spread of English-language media, are influencing non-native perceptions of the qualities associated with various forms of spoken English.</p>
<p>&#8220;Of course, the findings do not mean that speakers of the Glasgow or Alabama vernaculars are necessarily any more socially attractive or less fluent than speakers of other English varieties.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is interesting, however, that English learners from a country as different as Japan should demonstrate such high levels of awareness of variations within the English language.&#8221;</p>
<p>The four native varieties of English were rated as most prestigious under the social status category.</p>
<p>The findings of the survey have been published in full in the book The Social Psychology Of English As Global Language.</p>
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