Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Accentedness and Comprehensibility Vary Across Speaking Tasks
, 2018 This study critically examined the previously reported partial independence between second language (L2) accentedness (degree to which L2 speech differs from the target variety) and comprehensibility (ease of understanding).
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Discrimination of Degrees of Foreign Accent across Different Speakers
LanguagesSecond-language learners often encounter communication challenges due to a foreign accent (FA) in their speech, influenced by their native language (L1).
Rubén Pérez-Ramón
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Podcasting: An Effective Tool for Honing Language Students’ Pronunciation? [PDF]
Language Learning and Technology, 2001 This paper reports on an investigation of podcasting as a tool for honing pronunciation skills in intermediate language learning. We examined the effects of using podcasts to improve pronunciation in second language learning and how students’ attitudes ...
Lara Ducate, Lara Lomicka
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Prosodic factors that affect the accentedness of L2 Japanese utterance: What matters most?
, 2014 This study aims to identify the crucial prosodic factor for native speakers' accentedness judgement of L2 pronunciation. Prosodic features are known to have more impact on the accentedness of L2 learners' pronunciation than segmental features do.
Ishihara, Shunichi, Tsurutani, Chiharu
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Weighing Accentedness in Foreign Accented Speech
, 2019 The current study aims to help language teachers set priorities for their instruction by identifying the segmental and structural aspects of pronunciation that are most foreign-accented to native speakers of American English. The current study employed a
Zhiyan Gao
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Come valutano i parlanti nativi la pronuncia dei non nativi?
Linguistik OnlineThis contribution presents the results of an exploratory investigation on how native speakers perceive and evaluate the Italian accent of FL Spanish.
Renzo Miotti
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Do faces speak volumes? Social expectations in speech comprehension and evaluation across three age groups. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Hanulíková A.
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A conceptual model of second language pronunciation in communicative contexts: Implications for children's bilingual education. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Lin Y, Li F, MacLeod AAN, Pollock KE.
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Bridging the gap: Second language pronunciation and speech-language pathology
Canadian Journal of Applied LinguisticsSpeech-language pathologists (SLPs) are increasingly asked to assess the pronunciation of bilingual individuals, yet many report feeling underprepared and lacking confidence in their ability to do so efficiently. Meanwhile, second-language (L2) teachers
Marie Nader, Marianne Paul
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Adaptation to Social-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech. [PDF]
Brain Sci, 2022 Babel M.
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