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Direct linkCui Wan; Song Hou – Discover Education, 2025
This paper examines the rapid evolution of net slang and its consequential impact on Standard Mandarin, highlighting the interplay between net slang and traditional linguistic norms. The study begins by delineating three principal characteristics of net slang: multiformity, simplicity, and flexibility. Through a survey assessing Chinese attitudes…
Descriptors: Internet, Standard Spoken Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Linguistics
Michael D. Carey; Stefan Szocs – Language Testing, 2024
This controlled experimental study investigated the interaction of variables associated with rating the pronunciation component of high-stakes English-language-speaking tests such as IELTS and TOEFL iBT. One hundred experienced raters who were all either familiar or unfamiliar with Brazilian-accented English or Papua New Guinean Tok Pisin-accented…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Suprasegmentals, Familiarity
Akiko Fuse; Krysteena Alloggio; Seung-Yun Yang – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of the listener's education and occupation on intelligibility, comprehensibility (ease of understanding), and accentedness in speakers of Russian-accented American English (RA), Southern-accented American English (SA), and General American English (GAE). Native English listeners (N=126) rated…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Wheeler, Page; Saito, Kazuya – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Although intelligibility is a core concept in second language (L2) speech assessment and teaching research, the vast majority of previous work relies on audio-only stimuli. The current study set out to examine how linguistic and visual information jointly interact to determine the degree of speech intelligibility. Both first language (L1) and L2…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Native Language, Second Languages, Phonology
