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EAWW

                Evaluating English Accents WorldWide Results: FINLAND

Finland Personality Trait Means
97 University of Helsinki students
86 female, 10 male, 1 missing, mean age 23.5
(collected by Sanna Malinen)

Personality Trait Means

Finnish Students' Accent Guesses
majority/plurality percentage for each speaker in boldface;
major erroneous guesses italicised

Accent Guesses

Points to note:

  • There is a general similarity to the New Zealand results, with the EE male high in the status variables, but low in solidarity.
  • The female EE voice is generally rated low throughout, almost as low as the NZE male voice.
  • As expected, both NAm voices are rated highly overall; the NAm female is the leader in almost all traits except the four associated with status.