Reactions to second language speech: Influences of discrete speech characteristics, rater experience, and speaker first language background

T Isaacs, RI Thomson - Journal of Second Language …, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
This study investigates how Mandarin and Slavic language speakers' comprehensibility,
accentedness, and fluency ratings, as assigned by experienced teacher-raters and novice …

L1 and L2 production of non-lexical hesitation particles of German and English native speakers

B Muhlack - Laughter and Other Non-Verbal …, 2020 - biecoll.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
This study focuses on the vowel quality of non-lexical hesitation particles produced by 24
English and German native speakers in their native language (L1) and their second …

Issues of bilingualism in likelihood ratio-based forensic voice comparison

JH Lo - 2021 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
Situated at the intersection of forensic speech science and bilingualism, this thesis focuses
on the issues of language and language mismatch in forensic voice comparison (FVC) and …

Cognate effects in intra-sentential codeswitching in trilinguals-evidence from a read-aloud task

AM Schimpff - 2021 - lup.lub.lu.se
This thesis examines the effect of cognates on codeswitching in planned speech production
in trilinguals, which has previously been unexplored. Previous studies on cognates and …