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The Effects Of Pitch And Speaking Rate On Foreign Accented Speech Perception., Rebecca F. Davis
The Effects Of Pitch And Speaking Rate On Foreign Accented Speech Perception., Rebecca F. Davis
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Perception of foreign accent is typically studied using an accentedness rating task. For example, native English listeners rate the degree of accentedness in sentences produced by non-native English speakers. However, in past studies, it has been unclear what criteria participants used to judge accentedness. Here, native English speakers rated the accentedness of Korean-accented English sentences on a scale from 1 (strong accent) to 9 (little to no accent). Participants rated sentences that were unmodified or had one acoustic property removed. In one block, pitch contours of sentences were flattened and set to their mean values. In another block, speaking rates …