Author:
Derwing Tracey M.,Munro Murray J.
Abstract
This study was designed to extend previous research on the relationships among
intelligibility, perceived comprehensibility, and accentedness. Accent and comprehensibility
ratings and transcriptions of accented speech from Cantonese, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish
intermediate ESL students were obtained from 26 native English listeners. The listeners were
also asked to identify the first language backgrounds of the same talkers and to provide
information on their familiarity with the four accents used in this study. When the results of this
study were compared with the Munro and Derwing (1995, Language Learning,
45, 73–97) study of learners of high proficiency, speaker proficiency level did
not appear to affect the quasi-independent relationships among intelligibility, perceived
comprehensibility, and accentedness; however, the relative contributions of grammatical and
phonemic errors and goodness of prosody differed somewhat. Ability to identify the
speakers' first languages was influenced by familiarity.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Education
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