Refinement of the matched-guise technique for the study of the effect of non-native accents compared to native accents

Publication date: Available online 20 December 2018Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Warda Nejjari, Marinel Gerritsen, Roeland van Hout, Brigitte PlankenAbstractFinding and selecting representative matched guises of native and non-native English accents is challenging, because cannot be both a native and a non-native speaker of one language. In order to test a method to establish representative matched guises, matched-guise samples were recorded for the non-native accent, Dutch English, and standard British and American English accents. Four speakers, pre-selected by language experts, each produced all three accents. The samples were then evaluated on degree of 'nativeness' and 'standardness' by three 'linguistically naive' listener groups: 40 native British English speakers evaluated t...

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