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The Ontogeny of the Ability to Recognize Foreign Accents.
Scovel, Thomas – 1977
A study was conducted to assess the ability of children to distinguish native from non-native English and to determine the age at which they reach the adult level of recognition ability. A brief passage containing the segmental phonemes of English was recorded by ten native and ten non-native speakers of Standard American English. The tape was…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Auditory Discrimination, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics