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Sebastião Quintas; Mathieu Balaguer; Julie Mauclair; Virginie Woisard; Julien Pinquier – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Perceptual measures such as speech intelligibility are known to be biased, variant and subjective, to which an automatic approach has been seen as a more reliable alternative. On the other hand, automatic approaches tend to lack explainability, an aspect that can prevent the widespread usage of these technologies clinically. Aims: In…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Cancer, Human Body, Intelligibility
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Sardegna, Veronica G. – Language Teaching, 2022
Research has increasingly demonstrated that pronunciation difficulties in English can seriously affect learners' intelligibility and ability to comprehend spoken English. It is thus crucial that we find ways of helping learners of English become more intelligible. In this talk, I present compelling research evidence in support of a strategy-based…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Video Technology
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Skarnitzl, Radek; Cermák, Petr; Šturm, Pavel; Obstová, Zora; Hricsina, Jan – Second Language Research, 2022
The use of linking or glottalization contributes to the characteristic sound pattern of a language, and the use of one in place of the other may affect a speaker's comprehensibility and fluency in certain contexts. In this study, native speakers of Czech, a language that is associated with a frequent use of glottalization in vowel-initial word…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication, Native Speakers