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Nagle, Charles L.; Trofimovich, Pavel; O'Brien, Mary Grantham; Kennedy, Sara – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
Comprehensibility, or ease of understanding, has emerged as an important construct in second language (L2) speech research. Many studies have examined the linguistic features that underlie this construct, but there has been limited work on behavioral and affective predictors. The goal of this study was therefore to examine the extent to which…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intelligibility, Speech
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Munro, Murray J.; Derwing, Tracey M.; Morton, Susan L. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
When understanding or evaluating foreign-accented speech, listeners are affected not only by properties of the speech itself but by their own linguistic backgrounds and their experience with different speech varieties. Given the latter influence, it is not known to what degree a diverse group of listeners might share a response to second language…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Effect Size, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers