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 …

Denna rapport innehåller en sammanställning av de senaste decenniernas forskning om
attityder till sådant som av många människor uppfattas som spår av andra språk i svenskan …

Interest in second language (L2) speech comprehensibility, or listeners' perceived ease or
difficulty of understanding a given utterance, has seen continual growth since Munro and …

Intelligibility problems between native speakers (NS s) and nonnative speakers (NNS s) of
English are often attributed to some perceived inadequacy of the NNS s. This emphasis on …

As a result of the fact that judgments of non-native speech are closely tied to social biases,
oral proficiency ratings are susceptible to error because of rater background and social …

Language, Gender, and Sexuality offers a panoramic and accessible introduction to the
ways in which linguistic patterns are sensitive to social categories of gender and sexuality …

If extraneous information leads listeners to biased judgements, then their speech
perceptions are likely to manifest distortion in that direction. This phenomenon is known as …

One of the goals of second language (L2) speech research is to identify aspects of talker
and listener behaviour that both facilitate and detract from effective communication. To …

Mandarin Chinese is the official standard language in China (where it is called
Putonghua,“common speech”), Taiwan (where it is called guoyu,“national language”), and …

How do our expectations about speakers shape speech perception? Adults' speech
perception is influenced by social properties of the speaker (eg, race). When in development …