Using Listener Judgments to Investigate Linguistic Influences on L2 Comprehensibility and Accentedness: A Validation and Generalization Study

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Second language speech production: Investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels (2016, methodology): “…the generalizability of the relationship between comprehensibility and accentedness, as shown by the precursor research (Isaacs & Trofimovich, 2012; Saito et al., 2014; Trofimovich & Isaacs, 2012), for a large sample of L2 learners from another language background, which included 120 adult…”
Differential effects of instruction on the development of second language comprehensibility, word stress, rhythm, and intonation: The case of inexperienced Japanese EFL learners (2017, background): “For any discussion regarding the validity of the scale, see our validation article (Saito et al., 2015).”
Second Language Comprehensibility Revisited: Investigating the Effects of Learner Background (2015, methodology): “The raters, who resided in Montreal (a bilingual French-English city), reported speaking English on average 89% of the time (SD = 8.8), interacting with native English speakers 73% of the time (SD = 14.9), and listening to English media 85% of the time (SD = 13.5) daily.”