MODELING PERCEPTIONS OF THE ACCENTEDNESS AND COMPREHENSIBILITY OF L2 SPEECH The Role of Speaking Rate

By Murray J. Munro, Tracey M. Derwing. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Putting accent in its place: Rethinking obstacles to communication (2008, neutral): “Secondly, some of our research (Munro & Derwing 1998, 2001) has shown that speaking slowly can sometimes make comprehensibility worse for the listener.”
Second language speech production: Investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels (2016, background): “…learners with explicit vocabulary instruction, particularly targeting frequent words in L2 oral discourse (e.g., Schmitt, 2008), while simultaneously helping them pronounce these words with appropriate prosody (Field, 2005; Hahn, 2004) and at an optimal speaking rate (Munro & Derwing, 2001).”
THE MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY OF L2 SPEECH (2006, background): “The findings of this study indicate that despite the many potential influences on reactions to L2 speech, there is a notable degree of shared experience when listeners from diverse language backgrounds hear L2 speakers’ utterances+ In this study, we found striking similarities in the ways in which C”
IDENTIFYING A FOREIGN ACCENT IN AN UNFAMILIAR LANGUAGE (2007, background): “…Takagi, 1999!, syllable structure ~Magen, 1998!, prosody ~AndersonHsieh, Johnson, & Koehler, 1992; Jilka, 2000; Magen; Munro, 1995!, and speaking rate ~Munro & Derwing, 1998, 2001!+ Additionally, there are paralinguistic phonetic features that seem to be correlated with a native accent ~Scovel,…”
LEARNING SECOND LANGUAGE SUPRASEGMENTALS: Effect of L2 Experience on Prosody and Fluency Characteristics of L2 Speech (2006, background): “…suprasegmentals that characterize speech fluency reflect rapid and efficient functioning of several psycholinguistic mechanisms at multiple levels of processing ~Munro & Derwing, 2001!, including those of lexical access ~Costa & Santesteban, 2004!, grammatical encoding ~Segalowitz &…”
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN L1 FLUENCY AND L2 FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT (2009, background): “In general, even profi - cient and fl uent L2 speakers tend to speak more slowly than native speakers (Munro & Derwing, 2001 ); however, relatively little is known about the development of fl uency over time.”
Does a Speaking Task Affect Second Language Comprehensibility (2015, background): “These studies revealed a variety of factors linked to making L2 speech intelligible and comprehensible, including word stress (Field, 2005), sentence stress (Hahn, 2004), speech rate (Munro & Derwing, 2001), as well as pitch range and pause or syllable length (Kang at al., 2010).”
Second Language Fluency: Judgments on Different Tasks (2004, result): “…was .75, indicating an acceptable level of agreement that compares favorably with those obtained in previous studies (e.g., Derwing & Munro, 1997; Munro & Derwing, 2001) and suggests that fluency can be evaluated about as reliably as other dimensions of L2 speech, such as accentedness and…”