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Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN: 373691976X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to measure the intelligibility of Cameroon English speech to British and American English speakers and vice versa, and to analyse the major causes of intelligibility failure when speakers of these varieties of English interact. Focus is on segmental and supra-segmental phonology. The study was motivated by a number of concerns: the trepidation nursed by some scholars that the emergence of non-native varieties around the world would cause English to disintegrate into mutually unintelligible varieties in the way Romance languages devolved from their Latin ancestors; the fact that previous studies on intelligibility were centred on the traditional approach which considers non-native varieties of English to be deficient, and not different from native varieties and the debate on the level of phonological analysis that is considered the greatest threat to intelligibility between native and non-native speakers. Five tests were designed for the study, namely Test I (connected speech), Test II (reading passage), Test III (phonemic contrast elicitation), Test IV (nucleus placement in words) and Test V (nucleus placement in sentences)
The Intelligibility of Native and Non-Native English Speech
The Intelligibility of Native and Non-native English Speech: A Comparative Analysis of Cameroon English and American and British English
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Languages : en
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The purpose of this work is to measure the degree of intelligibility of native and non-native English speech as well as analyse the major sources of intelligibility failure when speakers of these varieties of English interact. British and American English (henceforth BrE and AmE) and Cameroon English (hereafter CamE) are used as a case study with focus on segmental and supra segmental features. The study was motivated by a number of concerns, several of which are more prominent: First, it was motivated by the trepidation scholars like Gimson (1965, 1980); Prator (1968); etc. nursed that the unprecedented spread of English across the globe and the emergence of non-native varieties would cause English to disintegrate into mutually unintelligible languages, in the way Romance languages devolved from their Latin ancestor. The second motivation was that previous researchers (Bansal 1969, Tiffen 1974) on intelligibility have often concentrated their efforts on the traditional approach, which sees intelligibility from a one-sided perspective. To them, the non-native varieties of English are deficient and not different varieties from the native varieties. They were seen as substandard, incorrect, and unintelligible and thus needed remediation at all costs. The native varieties were seen as prestigious, correct, intelligible and the sole norm that must be emulated by non-native English speakers. In this way any interaction between a native speaker and a non-native speaker should be characterised by the non-native speaker making all the efforts to be understood as well as to understand the native English-speaking partner. This explains in large part why these researchers concentrated on measuring the intelligibility of non-native speech to native speakers and never vice versa. It was as if it was treasonable to measure the intelligibility of native speech to non-native speakers. Even if some researchers managed to do this, the comments that followed such data still showed tha.
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The purpose of this work is to measure the degree of intelligibility of native and non-native English speech as well as analyse the major sources of intelligibility failure when speakers of these varieties of English interact. British and American English (henceforth BrE and AmE) and Cameroon English (hereafter CamE) are used as a case study with focus on segmental and supra segmental features. The study was motivated by a number of concerns, several of which are more prominent: First, it was motivated by the trepidation scholars like Gimson (1965, 1980); Prator (1968); etc. nursed that the unprecedented spread of English across the globe and the emergence of non-native varieties would cause English to disintegrate into mutually unintelligible languages, in the way Romance languages devolved from their Latin ancestor. The second motivation was that previous researchers (Bansal 1969, Tiffen 1974) on intelligibility have often concentrated their efforts on the traditional approach, which sees intelligibility from a one-sided perspective. To them, the non-native varieties of English are deficient and not different varieties from the native varieties. They were seen as substandard, incorrect, and unintelligible and thus needed remediation at all costs. The native varieties were seen as prestigious, correct, intelligible and the sole norm that must be emulated by non-native English speakers. In this way any interaction between a native speaker and a non-native speaker should be characterised by the non-native speaker making all the efforts to be understood as well as to understand the native English-speaking partner. This explains in large part why these researchers concentrated on measuring the intelligibility of non-native speech to native speakers and never vice versa. It was as if it was treasonable to measure the intelligibility of native speech to non-native speakers. Even if some researchers managed to do this, the comments that followed such data still showed tha.
Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation
Author: John M. Levis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108416624
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
An intelligibility-based approach to teaching that presents pronunciation as critical, yet neglected, in communicative language teaching.
Synthesized Speech Intelligibility Among Native and Non-native Speakers of English
Author: Dian Mayasari Alamsaputra
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Speech Intelligibility of Native and Non-Native Speech
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Languages : en
Pages : 7
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The intelligibility of speech is known to be lower if the talker is non-native instead of native for the given language. This study is aimed at quantifying the overall degradation due to acoustic-phonetic limitations of non- native talkers of Dutch, specifically of Dutch-speaking Americans who have lived in the Netherlands 1-3 years. Experiments were performed using phoneme intelligibility and sentence intelligibility tests, using additive noise as a means of degrading the intelligibility of speech utterances for test purposes. The overall difference in sentence intelligibility between native Dutch talkers and American talkers of Dutch, using native Dutch listeners, was found to correspond to a difference in speech-to-noise ratio of approximately 3 dB. The main contribution to the degradation of speech intelligibility by introducing non-native talkers and/or listeners, is by confusion of vowels, especially those that do not occur in American English.
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Languages : en
Pages : 7
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The intelligibility of speech is known to be lower if the talker is non-native instead of native for the given language. This study is aimed at quantifying the overall degradation due to acoustic-phonetic limitations of non- native talkers of Dutch, specifically of Dutch-speaking Americans who have lived in the Netherlands 1-3 years. Experiments were performed using phoneme intelligibility and sentence intelligibility tests, using additive noise as a means of degrading the intelligibility of speech utterances for test purposes. The overall difference in sentence intelligibility between native Dutch talkers and American talkers of Dutch, using native Dutch listeners, was found to correspond to a difference in speech-to-noise ratio of approximately 3 dB. The main contribution to the degradation of speech intelligibility by introducing non-native talkers and/or listeners, is by confusion of vowels, especially those that do not occur in American English.
Intelligibility of Vocoded and Waveform Speech for Native and Non-native English Speakers
Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non-native Speakers
Author: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642240194
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642240194
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system
The Phonology of English as an International Language
Author: Jennifer Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194421645
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching, in which the goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers, rather than imitating native speakers. It will be of interest to all teachers of English as an International Language, especially Business English. It proposes a basic core of phonological teaching, with controversial suggestions for what should be included.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780194421645
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching, in which the goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers, rather than imitating native speakers. It will be of interest to all teachers of English as an International Language, especially Business English. It proposes a basic core of phonological teaching, with controversial suggestions for what should be included.
The Impact of Accent, Noise, and Linguistic Predictability on the Intelligibility of Non-native Speakers of English
Author: Kimberly R. Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781423542049
Category : Cognition
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In many situations today non-native speakers of English must speak English as an international language or as a common language between two non- native speakers. Such communication is often complicated by adverse listening conditions such as noise and high stress levels. This study examined the effects of linguistic predictability and noise factors on the intelligibility of non- native speakers of English with varying degrees of accent when their listeners were native English speakers. Speech recordings were elicited from four adult male native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and one native speaker of English. Sentences from the Speech Perception in Noise lists were read by each speaker, representing native, mild, mild-moderate, moderate-strong, and strong foreign accents. Sentences were mixed with multi-talker babble with a signal-to-noise ratio of 6 dB, 10 dB, and 15 dB. Target words in half of the sentences were highly predictable, and the remaining half were of low predictability. All 30 listeners were native speakers of English. They wrote down the last word of each SPIN sentence from recordings of random selections of speakers and noise levels and rated spontaneous speech samples for degree of perceived accent and intelligibility pre- and post- SPIN listening task. Analyses of the data suggest that all three factors--accent, noise, and predictability-had a combined effect on the intelligibility of non-native speakers of English. Even the intelligibility of the native speaker was compromised when the signal-to-noise ratio was low and when the linguistic predictability was also low. When the native listener was challenged further by the addition of a foreign accent, intelligibility was even more compromised. This effect was greater as the degree of accent became progressively stronger.
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ISBN: 9781423542049
Category : Cognition
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In many situations today non-native speakers of English must speak English as an international language or as a common language between two non- native speakers. Such communication is often complicated by adverse listening conditions such as noise and high stress levels. This study examined the effects of linguistic predictability and noise factors on the intelligibility of non- native speakers of English with varying degrees of accent when their listeners were native English speakers. Speech recordings were elicited from four adult male native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and one native speaker of English. Sentences from the Speech Perception in Noise lists were read by each speaker, representing native, mild, mild-moderate, moderate-strong, and strong foreign accents. Sentences were mixed with multi-talker babble with a signal-to-noise ratio of 6 dB, 10 dB, and 15 dB. Target words in half of the sentences were highly predictable, and the remaining half were of low predictability. All 30 listeners were native speakers of English. They wrote down the last word of each SPIN sentence from recordings of random selections of speakers and noise levels and rated spontaneous speech samples for degree of perceived accent and intelligibility pre- and post- SPIN listening task. Analyses of the data suggest that all three factors--accent, noise, and predictability-had a combined effect on the intelligibility of non-native speakers of English. Even the intelligibility of the native speaker was compromised when the signal-to-noise ratio was low and when the linguistic predictability was also low. When the native listener was challenged further by the addition of a foreign accent, intelligibility was even more compromised. This effect was greater as the degree of accent became progressively stronger.
The Intelligibility of Japanese Speakers of English to Native Speakers of English
Author: Manabu Aoki
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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