Global Foreign Accent Rating of Code-Switched and L2-Only Sentences

The Use of Global Foreign Accent Rating in Studies of L 2 Acquisition

2 1. Introduction Foreign accent, as an identifying aspect of nonnative speech, has been widely discussed in both the theoretical and pedagogical literature. Still, the elements that contribute to the perception of foreign accent, and, indeed, the objective characteristics of it, remain ill defined. With this in mind, numerous studies have sought to quantify degrees of foreign accentedness by a...

Factors affecting degree of perceived foreign accent in English sentences.

This study used interval scaling to assess degree of perceived foreign accent in English sentences spoken by native and non-native talkers. Native English listeners gave significantly higher (i.e., more authentic) pronunciation scores to native speakers of English than to Chinese adults who began learning English at an average age of 7.6 years. The results for the "child learners" suggest that ...

Global Foreign Accent in Native German Speech

The results of this study suggest that German monolingual listeners were more likely to perceive a global foreign accent in the native German speech of consecutive bilinguals in Anglophone Canada and the Dutch Netherlands than in the speech of a control group of monolingual Germans in Germany. The results furthermore suggest that contact with the native German language may have a more significa...

Comparing foreign accent in L1 attrition and L2 acquisition 1 Comparing foreign accent in L1 attrition and L2 acquisition: Range and rater effects

Degree and direction of foreign accent in L2 and L3 Korean speech

The current study explores the potential influence of an L2 on the acquisition of L3, in the context of English speaking learners of Japanese (the L2) and Korean (the L3). As a mean to assess the degree of influence of the L1 accent and L2 accent in L3 production, an experiment involving the perceptual judgment of a foreign accent was developed. Two groups of native English speakers [(i) five w...