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Prosodic factors that affect the accentedness of L2 Japanese utterances: What matters most? [PDF]
, 2020 This study aims to identify which of two crucial prosodic factors has greatest impact on native speakers’ judgement of the accentedness of second language (L2) pronunciation.
Tsuruntani, Chiharu, Ishihara, Shunichi
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Global Accentedness in Children Enrolled in a Mandarin-English Bilingual Program [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this project was to pilot a study of perceived accentedness in the speech of students enrolled in Mandarin-English bilingual elementary schools in Edmonton.
Chan, Charlene +3 more
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Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 74-92, February 2025.ABSTRACT Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). Models like Labov's indicator/marker/stereotype trichotomy force this complexity into a single dimension, due to presupposing a conscious ...
Kathryn Campbell‐Kibler
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Voice accentedness, but not gender, affects social responses to a computer tutor
Frontiers in Computer ScienceThe current study had two goals: First, we aimed to conduct a conceptual replication and extension of a classic study by Nass et al. in 1997 who found that participants display voice-gender bias when completing a tutoring session with a computer.
Allison Jones, Georgia Zellou
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Intelligibility-based Instruction and English as a lingua franca
Research in LanguageThis paper draws heavily from my previous work on intelligibility (Hodgetts, 2020). It advocates basing pronunciation instruction on intelligibility goals, rather than native-like production goals and investigates the research available on the segmental
John Hodgetts
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Categorization of second language accents by bilingual and multilingual listeners
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 425-438, September 2024.Abstract This study examines how listeners categorize second language (L2) accents and how their linguistic background affects this categorization. Ninety‐eight adult bilingual and multilingual Greek listeners categorized accents in a familiar (British English)–unfamiliar (Australian English) L2 accent condition.
Georgios P. Georgiou
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Training ESL students to reproduce beat gestures in discourse leads to L2 pronunciation improvements
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"The main goal of the present study is to assess whether training foreign language students to reproduce natural beat gestures in discourse can trigger pronunciation gains.
Pilar Prieto +4 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 360-362, November 2025.
Kinga Koźmińska
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Language Learning, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 5-40, March 2024.Abstract This study longitudinally examined the effects of cognitive and sociopsychological individual differences (aptitude, motivation, personality) and the quantity and quality of second language (L2) experience on L2 speech gains in naturalistic settings. We elicited L2 spontaneous speech from 50 Chinese learners of English at the beginning and the
Hui Sun +2 more
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The effect of proficiency level of Spanish learners of Dutch on accentedness, intelligibility and status. [PDF]
, 2016 This investigation is about Spanish accented Dutch, in which the relationship between proficiency level and the variables of intelligibility, accentedness and status was studied by the use of an audio fragment and a questionnaire.
Bucchianico, A. Di
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