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Vowel Length and Intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca.

This study investigates the assertion of Jenkins' (2000) Lingua Franca Core (LFC) that correct vowel length is necessary for ELF intelligibility. Vowel durations of audio tokens from speakers of 9 languages, collected under ELF conditions, were measured. Talkers in this study produced longer vowel l...

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Published in:Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 246 - 262
Main Authors: Haslam, Mara, Zetterholm, Elisabeth
Format: Article
Published: University of Toronto Press 2024
Subjects:
Phonetics
Vowels
Sensory perception
Lingua francas
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