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Accent Imitation Positively Affects Language Attitudes [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 People in conversation tend to accommodate the way they speak. It has been assumed that this tendency to imitate each other’s speech patterns serves to increase liking between partners in a conversation.
Patti eAdank +4 more
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Accented Speech Recognition With Accent-specific Codebooks
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 Accepted to EMNLP 2023 Main Conference (Long Paper)
Darshan Prabhu +3 more
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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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Accent processing in dementia. [PDF]
, 2012 Accented speech conveys important nonverbal information about the speaker as well as presenting the brain with the problem of decoding a non-canonical auditory signal.
Hailstone, Julia C +11 more
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, 2023 Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites ...
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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 ...
Trofimovich, P, Isaacs, Talia
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German sentence accent revisited [PDF]
, 2004 Results of a production experiment on the placement of sentence accent in German are reported. The hypothesis that German fulfills some of the most widely accepted rules of accent assignment— predicting focus domain integration—was only partly confirmed.
Féry, Caroline +2 more
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Navigating Accent Variation: A Developmental Perspective
, 2022 Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech look like?
van Heugten, Marieke +3 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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