Linguistic Processing of Accented Speech Across the Lifespan

Linguistic Processing of Accented Speech Across the Lifespan

In most of the world, people have regular exposure to multiple accents. Therefore, learning to quickly process accented speech is a prerequisite to successful communication. In this paper, we examine work on the perception of accented speech across the lifespan, from early infancy to late adulthood. Unfamiliar accents initially impair linguistic processing by infants, children, younger adults, ...

Changes in temporal processing of speech across the adult lifespan

Speech is a rapidly varying signal. Temporal processing generally slows with age and many older adults experience difficulties in understanding speech. This research involved over 250 young, middle-aged and older listeners. Temporal processing abilities were assessed in numerous vowel sequence tasks, and analyses examined several factors that might contribute to performance. Significant factors...

a comparative pragmatic analysis of the speech act of “disagreement” across english and persian

the speech act of disagreement has been one of the speech acts that has received the least attention in the field of pragmatics. this study investigates the ways power relations, social distance, formality of the context, gender, and language proficiency (for efl learners) influence disagreement and politeness strategies. the participants of the study were 200 male and female native persian s...

Age Effects in Processing Bilinguals’ Accented Speech

Older adults often complain about difficulty understanding distorted speech, such as synthetic voices on telephones, answering-machine messages that are “too-fast”, and movies with actors speaking dialects of English different from their own. Younger adults (college-students) have been reported to complain about difficulties understanding teaching assistants with “foreign” accented speech (e.g....

1 THE PROCESSING OF ACCENTED SPEECH by HESTER DUFFY