Essays about: "accentedness."

Found 3 essays containing the word accentedness..

1. 1. World Englishes: Attitude in the Expanding Circle Towards East and Southeast Asian Varieties of English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Laura Ortu; [2021]
   Keywords : Attitude; Asian accented English; comprehensibility; likability; accentedness.;

   Abstract : English has become an essential part in our lives. It is inevitable to formulate an opinion when we meet a new person, and in particular we tend to focus our attention on the way this person speaks. READ MORE

3. 2. Accentual change in the lexical form of Japanese i-adjectives : Comparison over time with attention to rentaikei and shuushikei

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Thea Johansson; [2020]
   Keywords : Japanese pitch accent; Adjective; Shuushikei; Rentaikei; Accentual change; Perceptual acceptability; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study investigates the seemingly increasing spread of accentedness within Japanese i-adjectives in lexical final form, shuushikei, and adnominal form, rentaikei, by conducting an online survey containing Likert scale questions. Once the data had been collected, the informants were separated into age groups and their results compared between each other. READ MORE

4. 3. The influence of semantic context on accentedness, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in extemporaneous foreign accented Swedish speech

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

   Author : Marta Quevedo; [2014]
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   Abstract : Bilingualism is nowadays a worldwide phenomenon due to different factors such as migration, education or political and geographical reasons. These factors have led to both individual and social bilingualism, which favor an increase of communicative encounters between native and non-native speakers of a certain language. READ MORE