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A Visual Speech Intelligibility Benefit Based on Speech Rhythm
Brain Sciences, 2023 This study examined whether visual speech provides speech-rhythm information that perceivers can use in speech perception. This was tested by using speech that naturally varied in the familiarity of its rhythm.
Saya Kawase, Chris Davis, Jeesun Kim
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Can a Foreign Accent Brand a Nation? Serbian EFL Learnersʼ Perspective [PDF]
Filolog, 2019 This paper explores whether Serbian EFL learners can recognise which nationality stands behind a particular foreign accent, with the aim to investigate if a foreign accent could be regarded as a nation’s specific brand.
Danica M. Jerotijević Tišma +1 more
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Generating segmental foreign accent [PDF]
Interspeech 2014, 2014 For most of us, speaking in a non-native language involves deviating to some extent from native pronunciation norms. However, the detailed basis for foreign accent (FA) remains elusive, in part due to methodological challenges in isolating segmental from suprasegmental factors.
Lecumberri, Maria Luisa García +4 more
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Foreign accent syndrome post tonsillectomy: A case report
Clinical Case Reports, 2022 Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare clinical entity in which affected patients experience a new pattern of speech resembling an unusual accent. Reported cases are scarce in published literature and are usually the result of a neurological insult. FAS
Mel Corbett +3 more
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Accent imitation positively affects language attitudes [PDF]
, 2013 People in conversation tend to accommodate the way they speak. It has been assumed that this tendency to imitate each other's speech patterns serves to increase liking between partners in a conversation.
Adank, Patti +3 more
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Accent-independent adaptation to foreign accented speech [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2013 Foreign-accented speech can be difficult to understand but listeners can adapt to novel talkers and accents with appropriate experience. Previous studies have demonstrated talker-independent but accent-dependent learning after training on multiple talkers from a single language background.
Melissa M, Baese-Berk +2 more
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The impact of foreign accent on irony interpretation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 In modern multi-cultural societies, conversations between foreign speakers and native listeners have become very common. These exchanges often include the use of figurative language.
Sendy Caffarra +2 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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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999 Native speakers of English can identify non-native speakers with relatively little difficulty. Further, they claim to be able to identify the native language of non-native speakers, at least as suggested by such descriptive terms as French accent or Arabic accent, implying that non-native English carries properties which are characteristic of native ...
Z.S. Bond +2 more
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Accent processing in dementia. [PDF]
, 2012 Accented speech conveys important nonverbal information about the speaker as well as presenting the brain with the problem of decoding a non-canonical auditory signal.
Hailstone, Julia C +11 more
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