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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis

Abstract

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Finally, I conclude my study by suggesting that English language teachers deploy a contrastive analysis to help students understand how their ways of speaking differ from standard spoken English and other varieties of English, in preparation for developing appropriate speech accommodation strategies in interaction with other English speakers for effective communication.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Linguistics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Yang, Hsiao-Tzu
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Pandharipande, Rajeshwari

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3199183
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82632

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Yang, Hsiao-Tzu. Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82632