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Zielinski, Beth W. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
In this study I investigate the impact of different characteristics of the L2 speech signal on the intelligibility of L2 speakers of English to native listeners. Three native listeners were observed and questioned as they orthographically transcribed utterances taken from connected conversational speech produced by three L2 speakers from different…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Syllables, Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese
Bansal, R. K. – 1976
Twenty-four English speakers from various regions of India were tested for the intelligibility of their speech. Recordings of speech in a variety of contexts were evaluated by listeners from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, and Germany. On the basis of the resulting intelligibility scores, factors which tend to hinder…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies