Mutual intelligibility of american, Chinese and dutch-accented speakers of English
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This paper investigates the mutual intelligibility of Chinese, Dutch (both foreign-language learners) and American (native language) speakers of English using SUS (Semantically Unpredictable Sentences) and SPIN (Speech in Noise) materials. We test the hypothesis that speakers and listeners who share the same native-language background have an advantage (interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit).
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