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Regional and foreign accent processing in English: can listeners adapt? [PDF]
, 2009 Recent data suggest that the first presentation of a foreign accent triggers a delay in word identification, followed by a subsequent adaptation. This study examines under what conditions the delay resumes to baseline level.
Butler, J +3 more
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Native Speaker Perceptions of Accented Speech: The English Pronunciation of Macedonian EFL Learners [PDF]
, 2010 The paper reports on the results of a study that aimed to describe the vocalic and consonantal features of the English pronunciation of Macedonian EFL learners as perceived by native speakers of English and to find out whether native speakers who speak ...
A. Gimson +50 more
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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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Languages, 2020 The present study examines the perceived L1 accent of two groups of native Spaniards in the United Kingdom, Spanish teachers, and non-teachers, alongside monolingual controls in Spain.
Robert Mayr +2 more
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Using stacked transformations for recognizing foreign accented speech [PDF]
, 2011 A common problem in speech recognition for foreign accented speech is that there is not enough training data for an accent-specific or a speaker-specific recognizer.
Kurimo, Mikko, Smit, Peter
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The effects of explicit pronunciation instruction on the degree of perceived foreign accent in the speech of EFL learners [PDF]
, 2017 This paper reports on a study that attempted to examine the effect of explicit pronunciation instruction of some English segments (individual sounds) on the degree of perceived foreign accent in EFL Arab learners’ speech. Nine Arab learners of English in
Algethami, Ghazi
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Emblem Gestures Improve Perception and Evaluation of Non-native Speech
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Traditionally, much of the attention on the communicative effects of non-native accent has focused on the accent itself rather than how it functions within a more natural context.
Kiana Billot-Vasquez +9 more
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Automatic accent classification of foreign accented australian English speech [PDF]
4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1996), 1996 An automatic classification system for foreign accents in Australian English (AuE) speech based on accent-dependent parallel phoneme recognition (PPR) has been developed. The classifier is designed to process continuous speech and to discriminate between native AuE speakers and two migrant speaker groups with foreign accents, whose first languages are ...
K. Kumpf, R.W. King
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We introduce a nucleic acid nanoparticle (NANP) platform designed to be rrecognized by the human innate immune system in a regulated manner. By changing chemical composition while maintaining constant architectural parameters, we identify key determinants of immunorecognition enabling the rational design of NANPs with tunable immune activation profiles
Martin Panigaj +21 more
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The tolerance of English instructors towards the Thai-accented English and grammatical errors
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 Saraceni 2015), it has not been enthusiastically embraced by Thai educators, as evidenced in the frustration expressed by ELT practitioners over Thai learners’ difficulties with pronunciation (Noom-ura 2013; Sahatsathatsana, 2017) as well as grammar ...
Varisa Osatananda, Parichart Salarat
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