Unha importante cantidade de estudios veñen informando que o uso habitual do galego descende a medida que a idade da xente diminúe, e moi especialmente no hábitat urbano. Sen embargo, o estudio directo das actitudes lingüísticas na poboación moza de Galicia non suxire a existencia de actitudes desfavorables cara ó galego. O obxectivo deste estudio é comprobar se a medida indirecta das actitudes pode dar conta deste desfase aparente entre as actitudes e os comportamentos dos xoves galegos. Sometemos a 77 mozos de ensino secundario e 41 do universitario a unha tarefa baseada na técnica "matched-guise". A tarefa presentábase como un estudio piloto para sondar o funcionamento dun novo programa concurso radiofónico. Os mozos escoitaban voces (i.e., concursantes) que debían ser puntuadas con relación a diversas características persoais. Ademais, debían indicar a profesión que podía exercer esa persoa e adiviñar o seu rostro de entre varios presentados polos experimentadores. Oito destas voces pertencían ó mesmo home e á mesma muller falando: 1) Galego "Innovador" (i.e., con fonética e entoación suaves próximas ó castelán); 2) Galego "Tradicional" (i.e., con fonética e entoación galegas); 3) Castelán "sen acento" (i.e., con fonética e entoación próximas ó castelán); e 4) Castelán "con acento" (i.e., con fonética e entoación galegas). Tanto o home como a muller eran falantes nativos nas dúas linguas, tiñan idades similares e longas experiencias lingüísticas vencelladas a tódalas modalidades lingüísticas manipuladas. Asi mesmo, as respostas concursantes eran equivalentes desde o punto de vista temático, morfo-sintáctico, gramatical e mantiñan estructuras proposicionais parellas.
Os resultados obtidos nas análises estatísticas aplicadas informan que nos xoves galegos existen actitudes desfavorables fundamentalmente cara ó acento galego (i.e., fonética e entoación galegas), así como estereotipos profesionais e físicos asociados ás mesmas.

Several studies have reported that galician language usage disminish as people age decrease, specially in the cities. Despite of this, most studies achieved by direct measures of linguistic attitudes (mainly by questionnaires), reported favourable linguistic attitudes in young people toward galician language. The aim of our study is knowing whether an indirect attitude measure might account for linguistic behaviour of galician young people. 77 high school Students and 41 university ones participated in a "matched-guise" task. The task was introduce as a pilot study to know functioning and acceptance of a new radio quiz before bringing it into operation. Participants did hear, one by one, the answers of contestants and scored them in a scale that included several personal characteristics. Aditionally, participants had to associate each voice with a job and a face. Eight of total voices was coming from the same young woman and young man. Both of them were bilingual native speakers and each of them spoke: 1) "Innovative" galician language (i.e., galician phonetic and intonation close to castilian ones); 2) "Traditional" galician language (i.e., phonetic and intonation of galician language but without local features); 3) Castilian "without accent" (i.e., castilian phonetic and intonation with slight influence from galician ones); and 4) Castilian "with accent" (i.e., castilian phonetic and intonation close to galician ones). All the answers displayed were similar related to: 1) thematic topic, 2) colloquial style, 3) morphosyntactic and grammar complexity, and 4) structure of their propositions. Our results suggest that there are unfavourable attitudes in young people which coming to mind mainly when contestants spoke with a "galician accent" (i.e., galician phonetic and intonation). Moreover, we detect professional and physical stereotypes associated with this unfavourable attitudes.