TY - GEN
T1 - Salient prosodic features on judgments of second language accent
AU - Kang, Okim
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The study specified relative weights of individual prosodic features for listeners' judgments on second language (L2) accent. It reported partial findings of Kang's (in press) research. Using the PRAAT computer program, 5 minutes of continuous in-class lectures from 8 international teaching assistants (ITAs) were acoustically analyzed for measures of speech rate, pauses, stress, and pitch range. ITAs' first languages included Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. Fifty eight US undergraduate students evaluated the ITAs' accented speech. The results revealed that accent ratings were best predicted by pitch range and word stress measures.
AB - The study specified relative weights of individual prosodic features for listeners' judgments on second language (L2) accent. It reported partial findings of Kang's (in press) research. Using the PRAAT computer program, 5 minutes of continuous in-class lectures from 8 international teaching assistants (ITAs) were acoustically analyzed for measures of speech rate, pauses, stress, and pitch range. ITAs' first languages included Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. Fifty eight US undergraduate students evaluated the ITAs' accented speech. The results revealed that accent ratings were best predicted by pitch range and word stress measures.
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M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
BT - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2010
PB - International Speech Communications Association
T2 - 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Every Language, Every Style, SP 2010
Y2 - 10 May 2010 through 14 May 2010
ER -