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Listener Judgments of Speaker and Speech Traits of Varieties of Asian English
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Hansen Edwards, Jette G.; Zampini, Mary L.; Cunningham, Caitlin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This study examines language attitudes towards different varieties of English through listener judgments of speaker and speech traits; in addition, the study explores the relationship of these judgments to the intelligibility, as well as the perceived accentedness and comprehensibility, of varieties of Asian English and General American English.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Asians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Proficiency as a Mediating Variable of Intelligibility for Different Varieties of Accents
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Kang, Okim; Moran, Meghan; Ahn, Hyunkee; Park, Soon – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Factors that affect comprehension of accented English (e.g., Harding, 2011) have been well studied, but little research examines how listeners' proficiency affects their sensitivity to second language (L2) accent. The current study investigated the effect of test takers' English proficiency on their comprehension ratings and ability to correctly…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
The Reliability of Recorded Text Test Scores: Widespread Inconsistent Intelligibility Testing in Minority Languages
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Yoder, Zachariah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The recorded text test (RTT) is commonly used to test dialect intelligibility, often to inform language development decisions. More than 25 papers using the RTT method were published on www.sil.org/silesr from January 2009 to March 2013. As introduced by Casad [1974. "Dialect Intelligibility Testing." Summer Institute of Linguistics…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Minorities, Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility
Adult Comprehension of Black and Standard English.
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Granger, Robert C.; Crane, Judith – 1977
This study compares the ability of 37 Standard-English-speaking graduate students to comprehend Black English versions of a set of 45 utterances with the ability of 37 comparable students to comprehend Standard English versions of the same utterances. Of the two stimulus tapes used (consisting of 45 sentences each), one was recorded in Black…
Descriptors: Adults, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Graduate Students
Language Variation and Limits to Communication. Technical Report No. 3.
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Simons, Gary Francis – 1979
Strategies are developed for understanding how language variation limits communication. Methods of measuring communication are discussed, including an intelligibility measure used in the Solomon Islands. The analysis of data gathered using communication measurement is discussed. The result of the analysis is a determination of the number of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics, Culture Contact, Diglossia
ELT Documents. English as an International Language.
Lester, Mark; And Others – ELT Documents, 1978
This issue contains articles ranging from a theoretical discussion of the nature of an international language to an assessment of the implications of teaching a local form of English. The following articles are included: (1) "International English and Language Variation," by M. Lester; (2) "The English Language, Ideology, and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies