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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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Limitations on adaptation to foreign accents [PDF]
Journal of Memory and Language, 2013 Although foreign accents can be highly dissimilar to native speech, existing research suggests that listeners readily adapt to foreign accents after minimal exposure. However, listeners often report difficulty understanding non-native accents, and the time-course and specificity of adaptation remain unclear. Across five experiments, we examined whether
Alison M, Trude +2 more
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Disentangling accent from comprehensibility [PDF]
, 2012 The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of ...
Trofimovich, P, Isaacs, Talia
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Journal of Speech Sciences, 2021 Mandarin speakers’ productions of English sentences, spontaneous speech, and filtered speech were rated for degree of foreign accent by native English and Mandarin listeners. Results showed Mandarin speakers with 12 years' length of residence (LOR) in the U.S. were rated to be accented as those with zero LOR. Untrained native Mandarin listeners with no
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Understanding foreign accent syndrome [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2019 Objective Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is widely understood as an unusual consequence of structural neurological damage, but may sometimes represent a functional neurological disorder. This observational study aimed to assess the prevalence and utility of positive features of functional FAS in a large group of individuals reporting FAS.
Laura McWhirter +6 more
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Acquiring L2 Phonology: Foreign Accent and L1 Influence
, 2023 Acquiring another language is a fairly challenging process. Pronunciation is one of the language components which embodies a source of concern for many learners.
Dalal Alfadhil Attaher Salheen +3 more
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Recognition of foreign-accented vocoded speech by native English listeners
Acta Acustica, 2023 This study examined how talker accentedness affects the recognition of noise-vocoded speech by native English listeners and how contextual information interplays with talker accentedness during this process.
Yang Jing +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 A 40-year-old, non-aphasic, right-handed, and polyglot (L1: French, L2: Dutch, L3: English) woman with a 12 year history of addiction to opiates and psychoactive substances, and clear psychiatric problems, presented with a foreign accent of sudden onset ...
Stefanie eKeulen +11 more
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, 2023 Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites ...
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A Foreign Speech Accent in a Case of Conversion Disorder
Behavioural Neurology, 2005 Objective: The aim of this paper is to report the psychiatric, neuroradiological and linguistic characteristics in a native speaker of Dutch who developed speech symptoms which strongly resemble Foreign Accent Syndrome.
Jo Verhoeven +4 more
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