Relative salience of suprasegmental features on judgments of L2 comprehensibility and accentedness

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Impact of Rater Characteristics and Prosodic Features of Speaker Accentedness on Ratings of International Teaching Assistants' Oral Performance (2012, methodology): “Pitch range was one of the other major intonation features that affect NSs’ comprehension on NNSs’ speech (see also Kang, 2010; Wennerstrom, 2000).”
Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background (2015, background): “With respect to accentedness, segmental accuracy (Derwing et al., 1998), pausing and articulation rate (Trofimovich & Baker, 2006), and various suprasegmental measures such as pitch range, stress, and pause length (Kang, 2010) have been linked to L2 accent.”
Disentangling accent from comprehensibility (2012, background): “In fact, recent research shows that aspects of word stress and rhythm (with other prosodic features) account for up to 50% of the variance in accent judgments for L2 speakers from varied L1 backgrounds (Kang, 2010; Kang et al., 2010).4”
Native speakers’ perceptions of fluency and accent in L2 speech (2014, background): “Kang (2010) investigated how a range of suprasegmental features independently contributed to listener’s judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness.”