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Lexical aspects of comprehensibility and nativeness from the perspective of native-speaking English raters
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Linguistic dimensions of l2 accentedness and comprehensibility vary across speaking tasks
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Using listener judgments to investigate linguistic influences on L2 comprehensibility and accentedness: a validation and generalization study
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The current study investigated linguistic influences on comprehensibility (ease of understanding) and accentedness (linguistic nativelikeness) in second language (L2) learners’ extemporaneous speech. Target materials included picture narratives from 40 native French speakers of English from different proficiency levels. The narratives were subsequently rated by 20 native speakers with or without linguistic and pedagogical experience for comprehensibility, accentedness, and 11 linguistic variables spanning the domains of phonology, lexis, grammar, and discourse structure. Results showed that comprehensibility was associated with several linguistic variables (vowel/consonant errors, word stress, fluency, lexis, grammar), whereas accentedness was chiefly linked to pronunciation (vowel/consonant errors, word stress). Native-speaking listeners thus appear to pay particular attention to pronunciation, rather than lexis and grammar, to evaluate nativelikeness but tend to consider various sources of linguistic information in L2 speech in judging comprehensibility. The use of listener ratings (perceptual measures) in evaluating linguistic aspects of learner speech and their implications for language assessment and pedagogy are discussed.
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Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
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URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13316/2/13316.pdf https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/13316/ https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amv047
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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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Flawed self-assessment: investigating self- and other-perception of second language speech
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Lexical correlates of comprehensibility versus accentedness in second language speech
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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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Does a speaking task affect second language comprehensibility?
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Second language comprehensibility revisited: investigating the effects of learner background
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