This paper reports an investigation of speech timing in spontaneous speech of four British English accents spoken in Cambridge, Glasgow, Leeds and Bradford. We tested the effect of lexical stress, word boundary and syllable weight on syllable durations and found systematic differences between Glasgow and Cambridge on all factors, with Glasgow being the most conservative about lengthening. Diffe...

We used a corpus of collaborative task oriented dialogues in American English to compare two units of rhythmic structure – pitch accents and syllables – within the coupled oscillator model of rhythmical entrainment in turn-taking proposed in [1]. We found that pitch accents are a slightly better fit than syllables as the unit of rhythmical structure for the model, but we also observed weak supp...

We used a corpus of collaborative task oriented dialogues in American English to compare two units of rhythmic structure – pitch accents and syllables – within the coupled oscillator model of rhythmical entrainment in turn-taking proposed in [1]. We found that pitch accents are a slightly better fit than syllables as the unit of rhythmical structure for the model, but we also observed weak supp...

The present study analyzes the audio materials that accompany six government-approved textbooks for Japanese junior high school students to determine the variety of English accents used and to discuss the choice of pronunciation and listening models for Japanese learners. Despite the fact that the textbooks introduce various characters, not only from the Inner Circle but also from the Outer and...

Abstract This paper concerns how speech accent accents or reinforces racism in the context of labour migration to English-speaking Global North. It specifically outlines three functions racial capitalist systems that require migrants and their acceptance “linguistic deficiencies.” First, as a control mechanism pushes racially minoritised into low-paying work. Second, evidenced by language train...

It is well known that multilingual speakers' nonnative productions are accented. Do these deviations from monolingual productions simply reflect the mislearning of nonnative sound categories, or can difficulties in processing speech sounds also contribute to a speaker's accent? Such difficulties are predicted by interactive theories of production, which propose that nontarget representations, p...

Languages shared by people differs due to diversity in their ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, language, religion, sexual orientation, geographical area, accents, pronunciation and word usages. This eventually fall into hypothesis that they follow unknown hidden pattern. By using this hypothesis, determining the class of a person such as age, gender, their personality and nativity has mu...

Having a foreign accent is unavoidable for late second or language learners. The reason that physical changes in the brain influence learning variety of aspects new system (Flege, 1987; Patkowski, 1990). In other words, well-established first mediates acquisition language. mediation can be called cross-linguistics negative transfer (Sharwood Smith and Kellerma, 1986). terms suprasegmental pronu...

it is argued that language learning is regarded as the cornerstone of human existence. the widespread use of english as an international language makes it highly important in the world. it is no more working as the status of language of the elite class or the educated class of the society such as professors, rather it is working as an instrument to bring success in life. nowadays, teachers need...