Singing Your Accent Away, and Why It Works
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Eleven Dutch secondary school children sang and spoke the lyrics of a number of popular English songs. Their pronunciation accuracy was rated significantly higher in the singing mode by a group of native speakers. Additional perception scores showed that the decrease in Dutch-accentedness must be due to the fact that their foreign accent could not be signaled in the f0 and segment durations during singing.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011