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Cross-language acoustic and perceptual similarity of vowels: The role of listeners'�� native accents [PDF]

, 2013
Vowel inventories vary across languages in terms of the phonological vowel categories within them and the phonetic properties of individual vowels. The same also holds across different accents of a language.
Williams, Daniel P
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Technology-assisted consciousness-raising for L2 prosody: Effects on oral performance and the underlying cognitive-metacognitive mechanisms of thought-group chunking

Acta Psychologica
This study, using an embedded mixed-methods design, investigated how technology-assisted consciousness-raising training (CRT) optimizes prosodic processing in L2 speech.
Ümit Yıldız, Berker Kurt, Hüseyin Kafes   +2 more
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L2, L3 and heritage acquisition of Chinese T3 sandhi: comprehensibility and accentedness

, 2022
This is a study of Mandarin third tone (T3) sandhi produced by learners learning Mandarin as a second language, third language, or heritage language. I investigate factors affecting learners’ Mandarin T3 sandhi performance measured by two constructs ...
Deng, Jie
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Exploring text-to-speech technology as a tool for high-variability phonetic training: A study on Arabic speakers’ acquisition of English pronunciation

Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
This study examines the integration of Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology with High-Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) to enhance English as a Subsequent Language (ESL) pronunciation.
Forcan Al-Shami, Walcir Cardoso
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Emerging bilinguals’ attitudes towards target pronunciation

Káñina
This research explores how 95 English-dominant emerging bilinguals perceive English-accented Spanish across varying proficiency levels. The study examined the impact of self-reported Spanish language proficiency in the dimensions of Spanish grammar ...
Benjamin J. Souza, Tyler K Anderson
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Foreign-accentedness, Comprehensibility, and Intelligibility of L2 Arabic Speech in the Context of Arabic as a Foreign Language

, 2021
This dissertation investigated foreign-accentedness, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in L2 Arabic speech. More specifically, adopting a listener-based assessment approach, it was designed to measure how foreign-accented, comprehensible, and ...
Ali, Mahmoud Mostafa Eldaramali
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Acquisition of stress assignment phonology by Levantine Arabic Learners of English: Evidence from nonsense words

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
This study examines how Levantine Arabic learners acquire English lexical stress—a suprasegmental feature closely tied to intelligibility, comprehensibility, and perceived accentedness.
Mohammed Nour Abu-Guba, Abdallah Abu Qub'a   +1 more
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Consonant-Vowel Transition Models Based on Deep Learning for Objective Evaluation of Articulation. [PDF]

IEEE/ACM Trans Audio Speech Lang Process, 2023
Mathad VC, Liss JM, Chapman K, Scherer N, Berisha V.   +4 more
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The predictors of foreign : accentedness in the home language of Polish - English bilingual children

, 2018
We investigated the speech patterns and accentedness of Polish–English bilingual children raised in Great Britain to verify whether their L1 Polish would be perceived as different from that of monolinguals matched for age and socioeconomic status.
Marecka-Butkiewicz, Marta, Wrembel, Magdalena, JAKUB SZEWCZYK, Otwinowska, Agnieszka, Otwinowska-Kasztelanic, Agnieszka, Marecka, Marta, Szewczyk, Jakub, AGNIESZKA OTWINOWSKA, MAGDALENA WREMBEL, MARTA MARECKA   +9 more
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Nonlinguistic Factors that Affect the Degree of Foreign Accent in Second Language Mandarin

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2019
Previous research findings have established that a number of nonlinguistic factors can influence the strength of perceived foreign accent in second language (L2) speech.
Freeborn Lani, Rogers John
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