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The accentedness of English as an additional language (EAL): A nonnative speaker’s perspective [PDF]
Asian Journal of English Language Studies (AJELS), 2020 The perception of foreign speech is a complicated process from acoustic and visual cues as well as the attitudes we have towards linguistic variation. We also make judgments about the speech of others, such as accentedness.
Paul Lochland
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Lingua Cultura, 2019 This research aimed at investigating the extent of accentedness and intelligibility as well as the acceptability of Indonesian foreign-accented speech perceived by native and non-native listeners, as well as finding their correlation to each other.
Syifa' Khuriyatuz Zahro
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LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS OF L2 ACCENTEDNESS AND COMPREHENSIBILITY VARY ACROSS SPEAKING TASKS [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017 AbstractThis 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). In prior work, comprehensibility was linked to multiple linguistic dimensions of L2 speech (phonology, fluency, lexis ...
Crowther, D +3 more
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Espaces Linguistiques, 2023 The present study investigates the co-occurrence of face, goat, price and mouth vocalic variants in the Tyneside Linguistic Survey (TLS, Strang, 1968).
Maelle AMAND
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 As an international language, English is an important tool for people of different native languages to communicate with each other. Many empirical studies, proving that foreign accents are prevalent in L2 learners’ oral English, involved native speakers
Xiaojiao Xue +3 more
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Goodness and Accentedness Ratings of /hVt/ Tokens by Aware and Naive Listeners. [PDF]
Am J Speech Lang Pathol, 2016 Purpose This study compares goodness and accentedness ratings of speech tokens rated by listeners who are naive to and aware of speakers' native language backgrounds. Listener responses to open-ended questions regarding goodness and accentedness ratings are also examined.
Franklin AD, Oksanen KA, Gilfert KE.
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Preschoolers benefit from sentential context in familiar- and unfamiliar-accented speech. [PDF]
Dev SciAbstract To learn the meaning of a new word, or to recognize the meaning of a known one, both children and adults benefit from surrounding words, or the sentential context. Most of the evidence from children is based on their accuracy and efficiency when listening to speech in their familiar native accent: they successfully use the words they know to ...
Atik ND, LaTourrette A, Waxman SR.
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011 The construct of anxiety has been captivating the interest of SLA researchers for a long time. Numerous observations show that most individuals experience anxiety when learning a foreign language (FL) and using it, both in classroom and real-life ...
Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz
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Embodied Prosodic Training Helps Improve Accentedness and Suprasegmental Accuracy
Applied Linguistics, 2022 Abstract With increasing evidence in favour of embodied learning techniques, more research is needed to explore eventual applications in the field of second language acquisition, for example, the effect of embodied training on phonological learning.
Florence Baills +2 more
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Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 The purpose of the present study was to examine (a) the effects of audio-visual information and (b) the role of temporal measurements associated with the perceptual ratings of fluency, accentedness, comprehensibility, pronunciation, and oral proficiency
Burcu Gokgoz-Kurt
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