The effects of speaker accent and target predictability on perception of mispronunciation.
This study makes use of a listening for mispronunciation task to examine how native English listeners perceive sentences produced by non-native speakers. The effects of target predictability and degree of foreign accent were investigated. Native and non-native speakers produced English sentences con...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 56 - 65 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Feb1999
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