Speakers’ accents have been claimed to influence initial judgements of personality traits, such as trustworthiness. We examined how personal experience with specific accents may serve to modify initial trust attributions, using an iterated trust game in which participants make investments with virtual players. The virtual player’s accent was either Liverpool English or Standard Southern British...

Telecommunications networks are exposed to a plethora of accents and languages. Fundamental to current and future systems are low rate speech coders. This paper examines the problems associated with speech coding of different languages and accents. Our investigations show that most low-rate (8kb/s and below) speech coders show bias towards non-accented English. When the coders are used for heav...

Foreign accent is judged by the degree to which the non-native (L2) production is perceived differently from production patterns by native speakers (NL) [1]. Both segmental and suprasegmental features are shown influential in accent perception by NL speakers or L2 learners [2]-[4]. However, roles of prosodic cues in the process are not well known yet. Our study aims to investigate effects of in...

English as the lingua franca of the modern world is spoken by increasing numbers of individuals from various nations and of different linguistic backgrounds. Detection of foreign accents can potentially lead to improvement in the development of ASR systems which have to cope with vast, but, at a certain level of generalization, finite variation of English accents. Samples of Czech English have ...

Although adults rapidly adjust to accented speakers' pronunciation of words, young children appear to struggle when confronted with unfamiliar variants of their native language (e.g., American English-learning 15-month-olds cannot recognize familiar words spoken in Jamaican English; Best et al., 2009). It is currently unclear, however, why this is the case, or how infants overcome this apparent...

The way in which people speak reveals a lot about where they are from, were raised, and also have recently lived. When communicating foreign language or second language, accents from one’s first likely to emerge, giving an individual ‘strange’ accent. This is great challenging problem. Not particularly, because it part of personality that do not give up. It only when pronunciation causes disrup...

This paper proposes to define tonal alignment features as either intrinsic; the default alignment, or extrinsic; the shifts away from the default alignment due to prosodic contextual factors. Intrinsic alignment is different for pre-nuclear (PN) and nuclear (N) accents. This distinction is illustrated for a variety of Irish English (IrE), Drogheda English (DroghE) where the PN and the N peaks o...

English is one of the most prevalent languages in the world, and is the one most commonly used for communication between native speakers of different languages. As such, people from different regions around the world exhibit unique accents when speaking English. Classifying these accents can provide information about a speaker’s nationality and heritage to speech recognition systems, which are ...

Learning about what English learners think the different accents while speaking is essential to understand their reactions and ideas towards use of Mexican accent English. By presenting two audios asking participants perceptions those, research investigates 12-year-olds accent.

We analyse pronunciations in American, British and South African English pronunciation dictionaries. Three analyses are perfomed. First the accuracy is determined with which decision tree based grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion can be applied to each accent. It is found that there is little difference between the accents in this regard. Secondly, pronunciations are compared by performing pai...