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Accent-independent adaptation to foreign accented speech [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2013 Foreign-accented speech can be difficult to understand but listeners can adapt to novel talkers and accents with appropriate experience. Previous studies have demonstrated talker-independent but accent-dependent learning after training on multiple talkers from a single language background.
Melissa M, Baese-Berk +2 more
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Revista Nebrija de Linguistica Aplicada a la Enseñanza de Lenguas, 2020 Cuando los aprendientes de una lengua extranjera se enfrentan a ella, además de asimilar una nueva gramática y un vocabulario diferente, con el fin de evitar errores pragmalingüísticos y sociopragmáticos, deben aprender a ver el mundo a través de una ...
Marta Vacas Matos
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Big accents in Stockholm Swedish: Nuclear accents, prenuclear accents, and initiality accents
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 Stockholm Swedish has a distinction between so-called big accents and small accents (in addition to a lexical contrast between tone accent 1 and tone accent 2). The function and distribution of the big versus small accent has never been fully understood. West Germanic languages lack a corresponding distinction. While it is known that big accents appear
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The grammatical primacy of tone in Cushitic
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 The current dimensions in the typology of tone are not insightful for understanding the properties of tone in Cushitic languages. Some Cushitic languages are characterised as “pitch-accent” and these cannot be considered stress languages because the ...
Mous, Maarten
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A destressing "deafness" in French? [PDF]
, 1997 French is a language in which accent is mandatory on the last syllable of every content word. In contrast, Spanish uses accent to distinguish different lexical items (e.g., b'ebe vs beb'e).
Dupoux, E. +3 more
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Can children with speech difficulties process an unfamiliar accent? [PDF]
, 2001 This study explores the hypothesis that children identified as having phonological processing problems may have particular difficulty in processing a different accent. Children with speech difficulties (n = 18) were compared with matched controls on four
Nathan, L., Wells, B.
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Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent [PDF]
, 2010 This paper describes the accent of Neath (South Wales) from a socio-dialectological perspective and deals with changes in the accent which are due to the non-linguistic factor age. In a direct interview with indirect questioning, 27 informants from Neath
Podhovnik, Edith
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Disentangling accent from comprehensibility [PDF]
, 2012 The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of ...
Isaacs, Talia, Trofimovich, P
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Les noms de la Russie en roumain prémoderne : problèmes de traduction
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 L’article traite des noms de la Russie et de leur variation formelle dans les textes traduits en roumain au cours de la période prémoderne (1780–1830). Le nombre assez élevé des langues des textes-sources (français, allemand, italien, serbe, nouveau grec)
Ana-Maria Gînsac +2 more
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Psychology of Language and Communication, 2023 Research has shown that individuals speaking low-prestige language varieties are often negatively evaluated and stigmatized by others. However, less is known about how speakers of such language varieties perceive their own speech.
Fasoli Fabio +2 more
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