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Do native speakers of North American and Singapore English differentially perceive comprehensibility in second language speech?
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Second language speech production: investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels
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The current project aimed to investigate the potentially different linguistic correlates of comprehensibility (i.e., ease of understanding) and accentedness (i.e., linguistic nativelikeness) in adult second language (L2) learners’ extemporaneous speech production. Timed picture descriptions from 120 beginner, intermediate, and advanced Japanese learners of English were analyzed using native speaker global judgments based on learners’ comprehensibility and accentedness, and then submitted to segmental, prosodic, temporal, lexical, and grammatical analyses. Results showed that comprehensibility was related to all linguistic domains, and accentedness was strongly tied with pronunciation (specifically segmentals) rather than lexical and grammatical domains. In particular, linguistic correlates of L2 comprehensibility and accentedness were found to vary by learners’ proficiency levels. In terms of comprehensibility, optimal rate of speech, appropriate and rich vocabulary use, and adequate and varied prosody were important for beginner to intermediate levels, whereas segmental accuracy, good prosody, and correct grammar featured strongly for intermediate to advanced levels. For accentedness, grammatical complexity was a feature of intermediate to high-level performance, whereas segmental and prosodic variables were essential to accentedness across all levels. These findings suggest that syllabi tailored to learners’ proficiency level (beginner, intermediate, or advanced) and learning goal (comprehensibility or nativelike accent) would be advantageous for the teaching of L2 speaking.
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Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
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URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13311/ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716414000502 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13311/2/13311.pdf
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Flawed self-assessment: investigating self- and other-perception of second language speech
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Differential effects of instruction on the development of second language comprehensibility, word Stress, rhythm, and intonation: the case of inexperienced Japanese EFL learners
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Multilingual couples' disagreement : Taiwanese partners and their foreign spouses
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Lexical correlates of comprehensibility versus accentedness in second language speech
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Transnational experience, aspiration and family language policy
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Foreign accentedness revisited: Canadian and Singaporean raters’ perception of Japanese-accented English
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Prosody beyond pitch and emotion in speech and music: evidence from right hemisphere brain damage and congenital amusia
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Development of Comprehensibility and its Linguistic Correlates: A Longitudinal Study of Video-Mediated Telecollaboration
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The linguistic landscape of Chinatown: a sociolinguistic ethnography
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Lexical profiles of comprehensible second language speech: the role of appropriateness, fluency, variation, sophistication, abstractness and sense relations
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The psychological and linguistic profiles of self-reported code-switchers
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Integration of language and content through languaging in CLIL classroom interaction: A conversation analysis perspective
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Why do so many bi- and multilinguals feel different when switching languages?
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Conclusion: language competence, learning and pedagogy in CLIL - deepening and broadening integration
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Shop sign as monument: the discursive recontextualisation of a neon sign
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Multilayered multilingualism: the contribution of recent research to understanding code-switching
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