In this research, we explored the effect of noise interruption rate on speech intelligibility. Specifically, we used the Hearing In Noise Test (HINT) procedure with the original HINT stimuli (English) and Igbo stimuli to assess speech reception ability in interrupted noise. For a given noise level, the HINT test provides an estimate of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) required for 50%-correct sp...

this study compared the types of requesting strategies (rss) employed by thirty three persian native speakers (pnss) students at payame-noor university (pnu) in tehran, thirty seven persian lower-intermediate learners (plls) and thirty seven persian upper-intermediate learners (puls) students at persian center of imam khomeini international university (ikiu) in qazvin in order to study to what ...

Ten female native speakers of American English (NS) and ten Japanese females who speak English as a second language (NNS) were recorded reading a text containing emphatically-assertive tag questions. Evidence was sought to determine whether or not native speakers can correctly identify these utterances as produced by native or non-native speakers on the basis of intonation alone. The tag questi...

This paper describes an experiment aimed at determining whether native and non-native speakers of Dutch significantly differ on a number of quantitative measures related to fluency and whether these measures can be successfully employed to predict fluency scores. Read speech of 20 native and 60 non-native speakers of Dutch was scored for fluency by nine experts and was then analyzed by means of...

The complexity of Chinese characters and the differences in learners’ cultural backgrounds make process teaching to non-native speakers challenging. This review provides a comprehensive examination five key strategies used this instructional context: individualized instruction, contextualized technology-assisted innovative materials resource development, interdisciplinary integration. ultimate ...

In this paper, we show how acoustic variance within lexical tones in disyllabic Mandarin Chinese pseudowords affects discrimination abilities in both native and non-native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. Within-category acoustic variance did not hinder native speakers in discriminating between lexical tones, whereas it precludes Dutch native speakers from reaching native level performance. Furthe...