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Peer reviewedMunro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001
A study observed a significant curvilinear relationship between speaking rates and accentedness and comprehensibility judgments of utterances produced by users from a variety of first language backgrounds. A second study manipulated rates with speech compression-expansion software established that this effect was due to the rate differences rather…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Language Proficiency, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction
