The ABI (Accents of the British Isles) speech corpus contains approximately 90 hours of speech from approximately 280 speakers representing 14 different regional accents of British and Irish English. ABI includes a combination of applicationsoriented and linguistically-motivated material. This paper describes experiments in which the ABI corpus is used to study the effects of these regional acc...

In this paper the distribution of nuclear accents in declaratives of four major dialects of Irish is described. The findings show considerable variation, particular between northern and southern dialects. Speakers of the northern dialect of Donegal show a propensity for rising nuclear accents (L*+H) in declaratives, while speakers of the other, more southern, dialects of Mayo, South Connaught a...

Automated speech recognition (ASR) plays a significant role in training and simulation systems for air traffic controllers. However, because English is the default language used in air traffic control (ATC), ASR systems often encounter difficulty with speakers’ non-native accents, for which there is a paucity of data. This paper examines the effects of accent adaptation on the recognition of no...

Communication in English increasingly involves non-native speakers. Such speakers can speak English with different degrees of non-native accentedness. In order to contribute to insights into the effects that these differences in accentedness can have on listeners, the current study systematically reviews experimental studies into the effects of degrees of foreign accentedness in English. It pre...

With the spread of English as the global language, many people from English-speaking countries go to foreign land to work as English teachers. A review of the literature reveals that there is little research on these teachers’ teaching-abroad experiences. The current study is an attempt to address this gap in the literature. Situated in an intercultural team-teaching program in Taiwan, this stu...

This study investigated how L2 experience modulates L1-L2 talker-listener intelligibility. L1 southern British English (SE) and L1 French listeners with varying L2 experience (Inexperienced ‘FI’, Experienced ‘FE’ and Bilinguals) were tested on their speech-in-noise recognition of English sentences that were spoken with a range of accents (SE, FI, FE, Northern Irish and Korean-accented English)....

A study of individual differences in the fluency disruptions of speakers of two different accents, Standard Southern British English (SSBE) and York English is presented. Distributions of rates of occurrence per 100 syllables are examined for filled and silent pauses, repetitions, prolongations and (self-)interruptions, and subcategories of these. Patterns of occurrence of disfluency features s...

This paper describes the design and compilation of the CUMIX Cantonese-English code-mixing speech corpus. Code-mixing is a common phenomenon in many bilingual societies and it usually involves at least two different languages within one utterance. In Hong Kong, people usually mix English words and phrases with Cantonese in their daily conversation. Although there are many monolingual corpora of...

Handwriting character recognition is one of the most common research topics. Many approaches have applied to English characters and achieve high accuracy. However, the complexities in the language of each country are not same. Vietnamese handwriting character recognition is facing many problems, most of them come from the accent. This paper focuses on accent recognition, especially when there i...

our goal in this article examine the challenges facing the arabic language and the hiring extent of their impact in the arab and promoted by the enemies of islam and haters and orientalists and case westernized to replace accent in formal arabic.                         this is assumed to be have faced many of arab challenges of globalization and to advocate slang and accents by some orientalis...