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The Influence of Attention to Language Form on the Production of Weak Forms by Polish Learners of English [PDF]

, 2014
The paper discusses a study whose aim was to examine the impact of attention to language form and task type on the realisation of English function words by Polish learners of English.
Agata Barańska, Beebe, Beebe, Bowen, Bowen, Collins, Collins, Cruttended, Cruttended, Dickerson, Dickerson, Dziubalska, Dziubalska, Gatbonton, Gatbonton, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Jenkins, Jenkins, Labov, Labov, Lane, Lane, Lin, Lin, Magdalena Zając, Roach, Roach, Schmidt, Schmidt, Shockey, Shockey, Sobkowiak, Sobkowiak, Tarone, Tarone, Tarone, Tarone, Weinberger, Weinberger, Weinberger, Weinberger, Zampini, Zampini   +43 more
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Categorization of regional and foreign accent in 5- to 7-year-old British children [PDF]

, 2009
This study examines children's ability to detect accent-related information in connected speech. British English children aged 5 and 7 years old were asked to discriminate between their home accent from an Irish accent or a French accent in a sentence ...
Adank, P., Boersma, P., Butler, J., Butler, J., Caroline Floccia, Carton, F., Chambers, J.K., Floccia, C., Frédérique Girard, Hughes, G.A., Jeremy Goslin, Jongman, A., Joseph Butler, Kerswill, P., Nazzi, T., Nespor, M., Phan, J., Trudgill, P., Trudgill, P., Upton, C.   +19 more
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In the Ear of the Listener: The Role of Foreign Accent in Interethnic Friendships and Partnerships

, 2021
This article examines the association between accented speech and the formation of friendships and partnerships among immigrants and native-born majority residents in Germany.
I. Kogan, Jörg Dollmann, Markus Weißmann   +2 more
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Effects of Different Types of Noise on Foreign Accent Adaptation [PDF]

, 2016
Understanding foreign-accented speech can be difficult. Comprehension can be further compromised by environmental noise. Previous research has shown that listeners are able to adapt rapidly to a foreign accent.
Blanco, Cynthia P., Ferracane, Elisa, Garcia-Holmes, Katherine Niki, Gavino, Maria, Smiljanic, Rajka   +4 more
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Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome [PDF]

, 2012
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which changes to segmental as well as suprasegmental aspects lead to the perception of a foreign accent in speech. This paper focuses on one suprasegmental aspect, namely that of intonation.
Kuschmann, Anja, Lowit, Anja, Mennen, Ineke, Miller, Nick   +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, Barrett Jenna, Yin Zhigang, Xu Li   +3 more
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Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness [PDF]

, 2014
Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, more importantly, the two ...
Boersma, Boersma, Butcher, Butcher, Corpus, Corpus, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Flege, Flege, Flege, Flege, Gluszek, Gluszek, Hirose, Hirose, Jusczyk, Jusczyk, Kohler, Kohler, Kuhl, Kuhl, Ladefoged, Ladefoged, Löfqvist, Löfqvist, Macha, Macha, Ogden, Ogden, Pavel Šturm, Radek Skarnitzl, Ridouane, Ridouane, Roach, Roach, Shih, Shih, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Smith, Smith   +47 more
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Perception and awareness of accents in young children [PDF]

, 2008
This study examines children's metaphonological awareness for accent-related information in connected speech. In the first experiment, 5- to 6-year-old French-speaking children were asked to discriminate between Southern and Northern accented French in a
Floccia, C, Girard, F, Goslin, J
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Recognizing Speech in a Novel Accent: The Motor Theory of Speech Perception Reframed [PDF]

, 2013
The motor theory of speech perception holds that we perceive the speech of another in terms of a motor representation of that speech. However, when we have learned to recognize a foreign accent, it seems plausible that recognition of a word rarely ...
A Basirat, A Francis, AH Fagg, AJ Lotto, AJ Lotto, AJ Viterbi, AL Francis, AM Barrett, AM Liberman, AM Liberman, AN Meltzoff, AR Bradlow, AR Luria, B Galantucci, B Lindblom, BJ Kröger, C Best, Clément Moulin-Frier, D Norris, DH Klatt, DL Hintzman, E Kohler, E Oztop, E Oztop, ET Jaynes, F Eisner, FH Guenther, G Buccino, G Hickok, G Hickok, G Rizzolatti, G Rizzolatti, G Rizzolatti, GD Brown, IP Association, J Pierrehumbert, J-L Schwartz, JB Bonaiuto, JB Bonaiuto, JI Skipper, JP Rauschecker, JP Rauschecker, L Goldstein, LG Ungerleider, LR Bahl, LR Rabiner, M Adda-Decker, M Sato, M Studdert-Kennedy, M Wilson, MA Arbib, MA Arbib, MA Arbib, MA Arbib, MA Arbib, MA Goodale, MA Umiltà, Michael A. Arbib, PF Ferrari, PF Ferrari, PF MacNeilage, PF MacNeilage, PK Kuhl, RL Goldstone, S Grossberg, S Hawkins, S Moineau, SD Goldinger, V Gallese, V Wassenhove van   +69 more
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War feels less horrid in a foreign accent: exploring the impact of the foreign accent on emotionality

Frontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionThe processing of a foreign accent is known to increase cognitive load for the native listener, establish psychological distance with the foreign-accented speaker, and even influence decision-making.
Luca Bazzi, Susanne Brouwer, Zoha Nisar Khan, Rinus G. Verdonschot, Alice Foucart   +4 more
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