Perceived Strength and Identity of Foreign Accent in Swedish
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Una Cunningham-Andersson
Abstract
We report three listening experiments focussing on the phonetic correlates of perceived foreignness and perceived strength of foreign accent in Swedish. In the first experiment, it is shown that accentedness can be reliably measured on the basis of a relatively short speech sample and that a statistical count of deviating pronunciations correlates significantly with subjective judgements of accentedness by linguistically naive listeners. The second experiment shows a significant correlation between number of deviant features and perceived accent strength and a significant correlation between judgements of degree of deviation and foreignness. Some features are associated with impressions of stronger accents than others, and some with perception of ‘Finnish’ accent. The third experiment establishes which combinations of deviant phonetic characteristics most strongly tend to give the impression of Finnish accent.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 46, 1989
- Editorial
- Paper
- Perceived Strength and Identity of Foreign Accent in Swedish
- Perception and Production of English Vowels by German Learners: Instrumental-Phonetic Support in Language Teaching
- Aspects of Final Consonant Production in American English by Nonnative Speakers
- Categories of Tonal Alignment in English
- P-Center Judgments Are Generally Insensitive to the Instructions Given
- Naive Subjects’ Assignments of Stress Ranks
- The Influence of Pre- and Postplosive Fundamental Frequency on /t/–/d/ Perception in German
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum
- Call for Papers
- Publications Received for Review
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 46, 1989
- Editorial
- Paper
- Perceived Strength and Identity of Foreign Accent in Swedish
- Perception and Production of English Vowels by German Learners: Instrumental-Phonetic Support in Language Teaching
- Aspects of Final Consonant Production in American English by Nonnative Speakers
- Categories of Tonal Alignment in English
- P-Center Judgments Are Generally Insensitive to the Instructions Given
- Naive Subjects’ Assignments of Stress Ranks
- The Influence of Pre- and Postplosive Fundamental Frequency on /t/–/d/ Perception in German
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum
- Call for Papers
- Publications Received for Review
