This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and
accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency …

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a
powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of …

Second language pronunciation research and teaching relies on human listeners to assess
second language speakers' performance. Most applied linguists working in this area have …

A growing body of evidence shows that ongoing oscillations in auditory cortex modulate
their phase to match the rhythm of temporally regular acoustic stimuli, increasing sensitivity …

Empirical studies are essential to improving our understanding of the relationship between
accent and pronunciation teaching. However, the study of pronunciation has been …

The current study investigated linguistic influences on comprehensibility (ease of
understanding) and accentedness (linguistic nativelikeness) in second language (L2) …

Native speakers of a language, it seems, can fill time with talk easily, speak smoothly,
appropriately, correctly, with ease and effortlessness. But it appears extremely difficult to …

The current project aimed to investigate the potentially different linguistic correlates of
comprehensibility (ie, ease of understanding) and accentedness (ie, linguistic …

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our
knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has …