The effect of speech rhythm and speaking rate on assessment of pronunciation in a second language.
The study explores the effect of deviations from native speech rhythm and rate norms on the assessement of pronunciation mastery of a second language (L2) when the native language of the learner is either rhythmically similar to or different from the target language. Using the concatenative speech s...
| Publicado en: | Applied Psycholinguistics Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 795 - 820 |
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Cambridge University Press
May2019
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