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Radical Recognition in Off-Line Handwritten Chinese Characters Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization
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Do native speakers of North American and Singapore English differentially perceive comprehensibility in second language speech?
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Second language speech production: investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels
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Flawed self-assessment: investigating self- and other-perception of second language speech
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Differential effects of instruction on the development of second language comprehensibility, word Stress, rhythm, and intonation: the case of inexperienced Japanese EFL learners
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The current study examined in depth the effects of suprasegmental-based instruction on the global (comprehensibility) and suprasegmental (word stress, rhythm, and intonation) development of 10 Japanese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners. Students in the experimental group (n = 10) received a total of three hours of instruction over six weeks, while those in the control group (n = 10) were provided with meaning-oriented instruction without any focus on suprasegmentals. Speech samples elicited from read-aloud tasks were assessed via native-speaking listeners’ intuitive judgments and acoustic analyses. Overall, the pre-/post-test data showed significant gains in the overall comprehensibility, word stress, rhythm, and intonation of the experimental group in both trained and untrained lexical contexts. In particular, by virtue of explicitly addressing L1-L2 linguistic differences, the instruction was able to help learners mark stressed syllables with longer and clearer vowels; reduce vowels in unstressed syllables; and use appropriate intonation patterns for yes/no and wh-questions. The findings provide empirical support for the value of suprasegmental-based instruction in phonological development, even with beginner-level EFL learners with a limited amount of L2 conversational experience.
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Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
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URL: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14704/1/LTR2017.pdf https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168816643111 https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14704/
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Multilingual couples' disagreement : Taiwanese partners and their foreign spouses
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Lexical correlates of comprehensibility versus accentedness in second language speech
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Transnational experience, aspiration and family language policy
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Foreign accentedness revisited: Canadian and Singaporean raters’ perception of Japanese-accented English
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Prosody beyond pitch and emotion in speech and music: evidence from right hemisphere brain damage and congenital amusia
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Development of Comprehensibility and its Linguistic Correlates: A Longitudinal Study of Video-Mediated Telecollaboration
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The linguistic landscape of Chinatown: a sociolinguistic ethnography
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