An exposure-test paradigm was used to examine whether Dutch listeners can adapt their perception to non-canonical marking of lexical stress in Hungarian-accented Dutch. During exposure, one group of listeners heard only words with correct initial stress, while another group also heard examples of unstressed initial syllables that were marked by high pitch, a possible stress cue in Dutch. Subseq...

We provide a case analysis for 28-year-old, native Dutch-speaking lady who developed Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), few weeks after falling down the staircase. In addition to FAS, which gave impression she spoke with German accent, German(-like) words and structures occurred. Speech symptoms were aggravated by increased stress, fatigue or emotional pressure, this triggered jargon speech. It was...

Tests of foreign accent usually treat native listeners as reliable providers of accentedness ratings, and pay too little heed to task-specific effects on non-native speakers' performance. This paper details a number of factors which in fact influence native listeners' perceptions, and the nativelike behaviour of non-native speakers' productions, based on the results of a large study of phonetic...

This study examines the synchronisation of voicing and VOT in German fortis and lenis stops being produced by native German speakers imitating a French accent as well as by native French speakers speaking German. The results show that native German speakers use variation of glottal activity during French accent imitation, i.e. reduction of VOT in fortis plosives and variation of voicing in leni...

This paper presents a corpus-based descriptive analysis of the most prevalent transfer effects and connected speech processes observed in a comparison of 11 Vietnamese English speakers (6 females, 5 males) and 12 Australian English speakers (6 males, 6 females) over 24 grammatical paraphrase items. The phonetic processes are segmentally labelled in terms of IPA diacritic features using the EMU ...

Speech signal in addition to the linguistic information contains additional information about the speaker: age, gender, social status, accent (foreign accent, dialects, etc.), emotional state, health etc. Some of these informational channels induce changes of the speech acoustic characteristics. This article presents evaluation of the ASR acoustic models (first trained on neutral, read speech) ...

The current study concerns loanword accent of Nakijin Ryukyuan 1 , hereafter NR. NR, as well as many Japonic languages or dialects, has a pitch accent system. Kubozono (2006) and Kubozono & Giriko (2011) claim that in several Japanese dialects loanword accent is determined by two factors: perceptual similarity between L1 (a borrowing language such as Tokyo Japanese) and L2 (a borrowed language ...