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 …

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

Many migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds need to look for unskilled and low-
skilled work in a range of industries in New Zealand. A number of barriers to employment …

Ongoing research on ethnic variation in Toronto English has found that younger generations
of Italian-and Chinese-Canadians generally assimilate to the larger Toronto speech …

The numbers of Somali immigrants in Sweden has increased during the last years and there
is a need of more competence for teaching Swedish as a second language to this group …

In recent years the situation on the Horn of Africa has meant that the number of people in
Sweden whose mother tongue is Somali has increased. To better understand the specific …

This study focuses on the production of group of consonants that linguists classify as stops.
They are classified this way because the pulmonic air is momentarily stopped before being …

Segmentals are a key feature for intelligibility as are suprasegmentals. But some aspects of
pronunciation teaching do not neatly fit into either segmental or suprasegmental categories …

The pronunciation of/s/in complex onset and coda clusters presents a formidable challenge
to Somali English Language Learners (ELLs). There are two primary reasons …

In the scholarship on the Somali language, lexical and syntactic structures have received
disproportionately more attention than phonetic analyses. The goal of the present study was …