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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"foreign accent"”.
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Speech recognition of foreign accent
… techniques on single syllable words to detect foreign accents in spoken American English. The study involves thirty-one native American English speakers, and six native Brazilian speakers. Five different distance measures are used for classification. Results show that correct classification is …
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The evaluation of second language fluency and foreign accent
What is second language fluency? What is a foreign accent? Is it possible for an adult second language learner to speak fluently with a heavy accent or vice versa? What factors contribute to the perception of fluency and a foreign accent? What acoustic attributes correlate with the perception of …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
<p>Foreign accent, or the deviation from non-native speech, has a direct impact on communication and may even result in undesirable consequences for the speaker. Instead of perceiving statements as more difficult to understand, native speakers often perceive them as less trustworthy. However, the …
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The Effects of Foreign Accent and Language on Reaction Time and Accuracy in an Air Traffic Control Task
<p>The present study examines the effect of foreign accent interference with the ability to execute commands presented in speech format. The objective of this study was to demonstrate that a foreign accent influences performance. Participants were between 18 and 40 years of age. Half of the …
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Perception and analysis of Spanish accents in English speech
… relates most closely to the degree of perceived foreign accent in the English speech of native Spanish speakers: intonation, vowel length, stress, voice onset time (VOT), or segmental accuracy. Nineteen native English speaking listeners rated speech samples from 7 native English speakers and 15 …
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Vieraan aksentin arviointi ja mittaaminen suomessa
… of second language (L2) acquisition, the term `foreign accent´ is often used to refer to speech characteristics that differ from the pronunciation of native speakers. Foreign accent may affect the intelligibility and perceived comprehensibility of speech and it is also sometimes associated with …
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Teaching linguistic mimicry to improve second language pronunciation.
… in improving native speakers perceptions of accent and comprehensibility of ESL students' pronunciation of English. The thesis is organized into seven chapters. Chapter 2 is a discussion of the factors that affect the degree of foreign accent in second language acquisition. Chapter 3 gives a …
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Speech intelligibility: a study of Iraqi EFL learners’ accented English
… of Iraqi EFL learners in relation to foreign accent and accent familiarity. Productive intelligibility refers to learners’ English speech being understood by others. This is determined by a production intelligibility test. By contrast, perceptive intelligibility refers to the ability …
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Speech patterns of Libyan learners of English as a foreign language : a case study of Libyan students in Malta
… produced by Libyan learners of English as a foreign language in relation to age factor and its role in the process of English language learning. Also, this study investigates the wrong pronunciation of three English consonant sounds which are /p/, /Ɵ/, and /v/ made by Libyan learners when …
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Passive language learning application design
… All of the four applications promote learning a foreign language passively by using creative application design to naturally integrate language learning into people’s daily interaction with the rest of the world. This is an endeavor to make second language acquisition easier and more enjoyable. …
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Exchanging faces: Dubbing foreign films in China, 1949-1994
My dissertation examines dubbed foreign films, which were the Chinese people’s “window to the outside world” during the Cold War era. Between 1949 and 1994, when Hollywood’s path to China was blocked by Cold War politics, the Chinese Communist Party dubbed and screened over one thousand films from …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACOUSTIC FEATURES OF SECOND LANGUAGE SPEECH AND LISTENER EVALUATION OF SPEECH QUALITY
… by native listeners despite the presence of a foreign accent, other L2 speech seems to be more demanding, such that listeners must expend considerable effort in order to understand it. One reason for this increased difficulty may simply be the speaker’s pronunciation accuracy or phonetic …
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Adult ESL Oral Reading Fluency and Silent Reading Comprehension
… population is somewhat limited because of the foreign accent problem. It was also found that the fluency tools mirrored overall progress in proficiency level, and listening comprehension predicted silent reading comprehension better than any fluency measure or combination of measures, with …
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Uma análise cartográfica das pesquisas em inteligibilidade e compreensibilidade nas áreas de letras e linguística no Brasil
… pronunciation” instead of a production free of a foreign accent. Only after this interest in speech perception do studies on “intelligibility” and “comprehensibility” begin to be considered. According to Munro and Derwing (2015), both constructs must be understood in terms of listeners’ responses …
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The role of experience in processing foreign-accented speech
… /b/ vs. /p/), in several English- and Spanish-accented contexts, by native Spanish listeners with different degrees of experience with accented speech. In a series of four experiments, we confronted three potential mechanisms for the perceptual accommodation of foreign-accented sounds. …
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Talker-specific adaptation: how listeners learn and use indexical information during speech processing
… due to factors such as pitch, speech rate, and accents, we are usually able to understand what is being said quickly and with little conscious effort. However, there is still much to be understood about the processes by which we learn about talker-specific information in the speech signal and …
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Accent Conversion via Formant-based Spectral Mapping and Pitch Contour Modification
Accent conversion intends to change the accent of a speaker to a desired accent and preserve the speaker’s voice identity. This technology can offer a number of useful applications. For example, integrating accent conversion to a text-to-speech system (TTS) can produce a voice with a desired accent …
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初级阶段学习者对华语擦音与塞擦音的习得 = The acquisition of the fricatives and affricatives in mandarin by elementary level learners
… Chinese (Beijing) and nine elementary level foreign learners (6-7 months of learning) participated in this study. The three set of Chinese fricatives and affricatives are absent from the phonetic inventories of the learners? first languages. This research is based on acoustic measurements to …
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