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    Improving the Perception of Foreign-Accented Speech through Training: A Comparison of Word and Sentence Materials

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    2008-05-22
    Author
    Kasparek, Daniel Jeremy
    Publisher
    University of Kansas
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    89 pages
    Type
    Thesis
    Degree Level
    M.A.
    Discipline
    Linguistics
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    This study was conducted to test whether three days of high variability training consisting of either word-only or sentence-only materials would most effectively improve native listener accuracy for non-native speakers. Listeners were separated into a word training (N=14), sentence training (N=13) or control group (N=14). Depending on the training, targets were presented by Spanish-accented speakers as single word tokens or combined to form semantically anomalous sentences. Results showed that listeners who heard sentence-only information were best able to utilize their training. The employment of several strategies including the utilization of prosodic elements available in the spoken sentences and an exposure to a wider range of phonetic environments likely led to the improvement. The results suggest that for native listeners and non-native speakers, a high variability paradigm can be employed successfully when paired with sentence level information as all benefits found with word-only training were met or exceeded by sentence-only training.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4004
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