Adults and young children prefer to affiliate with some individuals rather than others. Studies have shown that monolingual children show in-group biases for individuals who speak their native language without a foreign accent (Kinzler et al., 2007). Some studies have suggested that bilingual children are less influenced than monolinguals by language variety when attributing personality traits ...

Articulation characteristics of particular phonemes can provide cues to distinguish accents in spoken English. For example, as shown in Arslan and Hansen (1996, 1997), Voice Onset Time (VOT) can be used to classify mandarin, Turkish, German and American accented English. Our goal in this study is to develop an automatic system that classifies accents using VOT in unvoiced stops. VOT is an impor...

This study addresses the question of whether L1-speakers of Vietnamese – a tone language – and L1-speakers of Somali – a language with tonal accents – differ in degree of accuracy when producing words that carry either of the two tonal accents in L2-Swedish. Some previous studies suggest that it is an advantage when discriminating between different tones in another tone language, if a speaker’s...

This paper examines evaluations of Asian accented English by American listeners. Despite widely circulating stereotypes about Asian accents, and the substantial body of work on attitudes toward different language varieties, relatively few studies have looked at American attitudes toward Asian accented English, and those that exist have produced rather ambiguous results. In an online survey, res...

background and purpose: multiple choice tests are the most common type of tests used in evaluating the general english knowledge of the students in most medical universities, however the efficacy of these tests are not examined precisely. we compare and examine the integrative tests and discrete point tests as   measures of the english language knowledge of medical students. methods: three test...

This study investigates children’s explicit and implicit language attitudes in a highly diverse primary education. Set the bilingual province of Fryslân, Netherlands, current research was carried out scope 3M-project (‘More opportunities with multilingualism’: Duarte & Günther-van der Meij, 2018a. A holistic model for multilingualism EuroAmerican Journal Applied Linguistics Languages, 5(2), 24–...

The paper examines the influence of application instructive musical exercises on better and more correct pronunciation certain sentences in English. In relation to type (interrogative form questions, affirmative with adjuncts if-clauses) intonation words phrases within sentences, a melody was specially composed for each sentence, primary criterion matching melodic flow sentence. training implem...

This paper examines whether adults can adapt to novel accents of their native language that contain unfamiliar context-dependent phonological alternations. In two experiments, French participants listen to short stories read in accented speech. Their knowledge of the accents is then tested in a forced-choice identification task. In Experiment 1, two groups of listeners are exposed to newly crea...

English is the medium of instruction in Philippines. Although Filipinos are focused on acquiring American English, they undoubtedly exposed to other types. However, little research has investigated this distinctiveness within Philippine context. Hence, case study explored perceptions Filipino students toward varieties English. Five College Arts and Sciences (CAS) department who took Bachelor La...