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The relationships among L2 fluency, intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness

Studies in Second Language Acquisition
AbstractFluency, intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness are important dimensions of second language (L2) pronunciation proficiency representing global, listener-based intuitions. This study meta-analyzed 49 reports from 1995 to 2023, examining 141 effect sizes (Pearson r) to understand their relationships and possible moderators.
Tuc Chau, Amanda Huensch
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Listener perception of appropriateness of L1 and L2 refusals in English

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
English has become an international language (EIL) as speakers around the world use it as a universal means of communication. Accordingly, scholars have investigated different aspects of EIL affecting communicative success.
Maria Kostromitina, Yongzhi Miao
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Relative Difficulty in the Acquisition of the Phonetic Parameters of Obstruent Coda Voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-Speaking Learners of French. [PDF]

Lang Speech, 2023
Patience M, Steele J.
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A study on intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness based on the application pattern of lateralization and nasalization rules in foreign-accented speech of Korean

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This study aims to investigate the impact of application patterns of Korean phonological rules in foreign-accented speech on native speakers’ comprehension.
Esraa Hasan, Yuri Ahn, Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh   +2 more
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Reducing the impact of foreign accentedness in English Medium Instruction

Applied Linguistics
Abstract Foreign-accented teachers have been shown to trigger negative evaluations by students. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether this form of accent discrimination can be prevented or reduced by raising listeners’ awareness of the undesirability of accent discrimination.
Berna Hendriks, Frank van Meurs, Luisa Wolf   +2 more
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Commentary: L2 Phonology: Where Theory, Data, and Methods Meet. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Shea CE.
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Voice-placing strategies and folk ideas of L2-accented Icelandic.

Linguistik Online
For a long time, Iceland has been a monoethnic and monolingual speech community, in which the Icelandic language has both served as a main element in the construction and maintenance of national identity and in which a stable evaluation system has been ...
Stefanie Bade
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Requests and apologies in two languages among bilingual speakers: A comparison of heritage English speakers and English- and Hebrew-dominant bilinguals. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Bar On S, Meir N.
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Investigating a shared-dialect effect between raters and candidates in English speaking tests. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Xu Y, Huang M, Chen J, Zhang Y.
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Listeners' Linguistic Experience Affects the Degree of Perceived Nativeness of First Language Pronunciation. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2021
Kornder L, Mennen I.
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