Perceived Accentedness in Monolingual and Simultaneous Bilingual Children
Lifespans and Styles, 2021 Previous research on accentedness in simultaneous bilinguals has produced inconsistent results and has focused on adult speakers. The current study explores the question of whether simultaneous bilingual children are perceived to have stronger accents in
Cambria Willis +2 more
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Swedish Youths as Listeners of Global Englishes Speakers With Diverse Accents: Listener Intelligibility, Listener Comprehensibility, Accentedness Perception, and Accentedness Acceptance [PDF]
Frontiers in Education, 2021 As reflected in the concept of Global Englishes, English mediates global communication, where English speakers represent not merely those from English-speaking countries like United Kingdom or United States but also global people from a wide range of ...
Hyeseung Jeong +2 more
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Linguistic Influences on Comprehensibility and Accentedness in Second Language Korean Speech
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 A considerable body of research has investigated the influence of linguistic variables on comprehensibility and accentedness in L2 speech. However, studies on this topic have overwhelmingly focused on L2 English, with little known about other L2s.
Daniel R. Isbell +2 more
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Listener characteristics modulate the semantic processing of native vs. foreign-accented speech. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Foreign accents have been shown to have considerable impact on how language is processed [1]. However, the impact of a foreign accent on semantic processing is not well understood.
Rebecca Holt +2 more
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Accent rating of vocoded foreign-accented speech by native listeners [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2023 This study examined accent rating of speech samples collected from 12 Mandarin-accented English talkers and two native English talkers. The speech samples were processed with noise- and tone-vocoders at 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 channels.
Jing Yang +4 more
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The role of a foreign accent in the social and personal identification of a speaker [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The intensification of migration processes in Europe necessitates studying the foreign accent as a means of social and personal diagnostics within multicultural communities in the light of the increased number of cases of the “accent-based ...
Popova Marianna
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Research in Language, 2023 The main goal of the study reported in this paper was to verify whether the Big Five personality traits can be considered correlates of accentedness in a setting deprived of pronunciation-focused instruction.
Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz
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Recognition of foreign-accented vocoded speech by native English listeners
Acta Acustica, 2023 This study examined how talker accentedness affects the recognition of noise-vocoded speech by native English listeners and how contextual information interplays with talker accentedness during this process.
Yang Jing +3 more
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Perceived foreign accentedness: Acoustic distances and lexical properties [PDF]
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2015 In this study, we examined speaker-dependent (acoustic) and speaker-independent (lexical) linguistic influences on perceived foreign accentedness. Accentedness ratings assigned to Chinese-accented English words were analyzed, taking accentedness as a continuum. The speaker-dependent variables were included as acoustic distances, measured in relation to
Vincent, Porretta +2 more
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Attitudes toward Jordanian Arabic-Accented English among Native and Non-native Speakers of English
ELOPE, 2021 This paper explores attitudes toward Jordanian Arabic-accented English among native and non-native speakers of English. Three groups of listeners (native English speakers, Jordanian Arab specialists and non-specialists in English) were asked to rate ...
Mohammed Nour Abu Guba +3 more
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