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The Listener: No Longer the Silent Partner in Reduced Intelligibility
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Zielinski, Beth W. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
In this study I investigate the impact of different characteristics of the L2 speech signal on the intelligibility of L2 speakers of English to native listeners. Three native listeners were observed and questioned as they orthographically transcribed utterances taken from connected conversational speech produced by three L2 speakers from different…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Syllables, Suprasegmentals, Mandarin Chinese