The Unforeseen Consequences of Interacting With Non‐Native Speakers

Sociolinguistic research shows that listeners' expectations of speakers influence their interpretation of the speech, yet this is often ignored in cognitive models of language comprehension. Here, we focus on the case of interactions between native and non‐native speakers. Previous literature shows that listeners process the language of non‐native speakers in less detail, because they expect them to have lower linguistic competence. We show that...