Previous studies have shown that even advanced L2 speakers align pitch accents differently from native speakers, and the only possibility for full attainment of L2 is through immersion. This study investigated two groups of five advanced L2 English speakers who first exposed to English through early immersion. Their alignment of prenuclear and nuclear accents was compared with that of the nativ...

Standard or prestige accents (e.g., southern British RP, General American) are highly intelligible to a range of native speakers, which may be caused by listener experience (e.g., the accents are frequently heard in the media). The present study investigated the role of experience by testing Mandarin speakers with intermediate English proficiency in terms of their speech-in-noise recognition fo...

Accents are often utilised in fictional audiovisual products to determine the creation of character identity. This is due set cultural connotations typically associated with any given accent language community. However, there really one monolingual target audience anymore? In age streaming platforms, and at rate localisation industry creating subtitles revoiced versions, for many has become mul...

In this study, we investigated Turkish EFL teachers’ level of recognition English accent varieties and their attitudes regarding three common domains, status (e.g. educatedness, intelligence), solidarity (friendliness, kindness), dynamism (confidence, talkativeness). We also explored the choices accents in various language-using contexts. Through verbal-guise technique, were able to evaluate la...

This study reports an exploratory analysis of the age of arrival (AoA) effect on the production of second language (L2) prosody. Three groups of Mandarin-speaking immigrants (N=10 in each group) with varying AoA in the United States and ten native speakers of English as controls participated in the study. All participants read a paragraph of English, and their speech samples were subjected to t...

This paper aims at effectively identifying common English mispronunciations by Mandarin speakers and incorporating this knowledge into computer assisted language learning (CALL) to improve the learner’s accented English. For this purpose, English and Mandarin multi-channel EMA articulatory datasets collected from native English and native Mandarin speakers respectively have been used to uncover...

The existence of the Language Familiarity Effect (LFE), where talkers a familiar language are easier to identify than an unfamiliar language, is well-documented and uncontroversial. However, closely related phenomenon known as Other Accent (OAE), accented more difficult recognize, less well understood. There several possible explanations for why OAE exists, but date, little data exist adjudicat...