What Constitutes Second Language Comprehensibility and Accentedness? Evidence From New Speaker Groups.
This study addresses deconstructing L2 English comprehensibility and accentedness. The topic has interested scholars as comprehensibility and accentedness have been found partly independent phenomena, and modern L2 teaching aims for comprehensible rather than native-like speech. It is hence importan...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 289 - 309 |
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University of Toronto Press
2024
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