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Yoder, Zachariah – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
The recorded text test (RTT) is commonly used to test dialect intelligibility, often to inform language development decisions. More than 25 papers using the RTT method were published on www.sil.org/silesr from January 2009 to March 2013. As introduced by Casad [1974. "Dialect Intelligibility Testing." Summer Institute of Linguistics…
Descriptors: Scores, Language Minorities, Language Variation, Mutual Intelligibility
Xin Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Over the past few decades, there has been considerable effort to find the mechanisms through which adult listeners can accommodate the rampant phonetic variation in natural speech. My dissertation concerns one source of variability: phonetic variation in speech produced by individuals with foreign accents. Mounting evidence shows that listeners…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Pronunciation, Language Variation