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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 neural marker for social bias toward in-group accents [PDF]
, 2014 Accents provide information about the speaker's geographical, socio-economic, and ethnic background. Research in applied psychology and sociolinguistics suggests that we generally prefer our own accent to other varieties of our native language and ...
Belin, Pascal +2 more
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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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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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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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Prosodic focus marking in silent reading: effects of discourse context and rhythm
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Understanding a sentence and integrating it into the discourse depends upon the identification of its focus, which, in spoken German, is marked by accentuation. In the case of written language, which lacks explicit cues to accent, readers have to draw on
Gerrit eKentner, Shravan eVasishth
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