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Kim, Sahyang; Broersma, Mirjam; Cho, Taehong – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
The artificial language learning paradigm was used to investigate to what extent the use of prosodic features is universally applicable or specifically language driven in learning an unfamiliar language, and how nonnative prosodic patterns can be learned. Listeners of unrelated languages--Dutch (n = 100) and Korean (n = 100)--participated. The…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Cues, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
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Pinget, Anne-France; Bosker, Hans Rutger; Quené, Hugo; de Jong, Nivja H. – Language Testing, 2014
Oral fluency and foreign accent distinguish L2 from L1 speech production. In language testing practices, both fluency and accent are usually assessed by raters. This study investigates what exactly native raters of fluency and accent take into account when judging L2. Our aim is to explore the relationship between objectively measured temporal,…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Language Fluency, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning