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ELF intelligibility: the vowel quality factor

  • George O’Neal

    George O’Neal teaches English at Niigata University, Japan. He has taught English to humanities, business, engineering, medical, and law students. He is the author of several papers that examine the relationship between intelligibility and pronunciation in ELF interactions in Japan from a conversation analytic perspective.

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Published/Copyright: August 14, 2015
Journal of English as a Lingua Franca
From the journal Journal of English as a Lingua Franca Volume 4 Issue 2

Published Online: 2015-8-14
Published in Print: 2015-9-1

©2015 by De Gruyter Mouton

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  4. Parties, persons, and one-at-a-time: conversation analysis and ELF
  5. The role of noun phrases in misunderstandings in Brunei English in ELF settings
  6. Exploring second language speakers’ linguistic identities in ELF communication: a Hong Kong study
  7. Topic & Comment
  8. ELF and the alternatives: comments on Ian MacKenzie’s “Topic & Comment” in JELF 2014; 3(2): 395–407
  9. Response to Sabine Fiedler
  10. “It’s all Greek to me!” or “Am I speaking Chinese?” Comments on Peter Trudgill’s “Before ELF: GLF from Samarkand to Sfakia” in JELF 3(2), 387–393
  11. ELF intelligibility: the vowel quality factor
  12. JELF Talk
  13. ELF and the pragmatics of language variation
  14. Book Reviews
  15. Grazzi, Enrico: The Sociocultural Dimension of ELF in the English Classroom
  16. Collé-Bak, Nathalie, Monica Latham & David Ten Eyck: Textual Practices in the Digital Age
  17. Vettorel, Paola: English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking: Blogging Practices
  18. Deterding, David: Misunderstandings in English as a Lingua Franca. An Analysis of ELF Interactions in South-East Asia
  19. Muni Toke, Valelia: Le Locuteur natif
https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2015-0026

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Articles
  3. Usage-based recycling or creative exploitation of the shared code? The case of phraseological patterning
  4. Parties, persons, and one-at-a-time: conversation analysis and ELF
  5. The role of noun phrases in misunderstandings in Brunei English in ELF settings
  6. Exploring second language speakers’ linguistic identities in ELF communication: a Hong Kong study
  7. Topic & Comment
  8. ELF and the alternatives: comments on Ian MacKenzie’s “Topic & Comment” in JELF 2014; 3(2): 395–407
  9. Response to Sabine Fiedler
  10. “It’s all Greek to me!” or “Am I speaking Chinese?” Comments on Peter Trudgill’s “Before ELF: GLF from Samarkand to Sfakia” in JELF 3(2), 387–393
  11. ELF intelligibility: the vowel quality factor
  12. JELF Talk
  13. ELF and the pragmatics of language variation
  14. Book Reviews
  15. Grazzi, Enrico: The Sociocultural Dimension of ELF in the English Classroom
  16. Collé-Bak, Nathalie, Monica Latham & David Ten Eyck: Textual Practices in the Digital Age
  17. Vettorel, Paola: English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking: Blogging Practices
  18. Deterding, David: Misunderstandings in English as a Lingua Franca. An Analysis of ELF Interactions in South-East Asia
  19. Muni Toke, Valelia: Le Locuteur natif
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