Trick or treat? Adaptation to Italian-accented English speech by native English, Italian, and Dutch listeners
English is spoken worldwide by both native (L1) and nonnative (L2) speakers. It is therefore imperative to establish how easily L1 and L2 speakers understand each other. We know that L1 listeners adapt to foreign-accented speech very rapidly (Clarke & Garrett, 2004), and L2 listeners find L2 speakers (from matched and mismatched L1 backgrounds) as intelligible as native speakers (Bent & Bradlow, 2003). But foreign-accented speech can deviate widely from L1 pronunciation norms, for example when adult L2 learners experience difficulties in producing L2 phonemes that are not part of their... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | other |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2009 |
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Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29007019 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-3A11-3 |