Accent bias is a consequence of ethnocentrism. No studies have examined accent bias across educational levels in the U.S., much less across students and professionals in speech language pathology (SLP), a field that requires multicultural sensitivity training. This study examines nonnative accent perception among three groups—high schoolers, SLP students, and SLP professionals. One-hundred-and-...

farsi and english are both indo-european languages with similarities in their roots. as such, this experiment was conducted to understand which english accent (i.e. american, british or australian accents) would be easier for iranians to adapt. to answer this question, 30 medical students performed three different activities of (i) listening to audio texts in three accents, (ii) taking part in ...

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borrowing in different accents – similar to languages – is done because of the trade between that accent and other languages and accents and shows the dynamism of the accent. on the other hand it proves the relationship between different cultures in spite of their historical or geographical distance. by a deep research in syrian accent the borrowing from persian, turkish, french, italian and en...

autosegmental-metrical (am) phonology distinguishes two types of accents (stresses), namely: lexical accent and pitch accent. the present study offers an acoustic analysis of the prosodic feature, pitch accent, in the persian speech of persian speakers who are fluent in english as a second language (english instructors). language interference has often been dealt with as the effect of firs lang...

It is well-established that there is a correspondence between the discourse status of information (i.e., given or new) on the one hand, and whether the linguistic material that denotes that information receives accent or not. It is equally well-established, however, that this correspondence is not straightforward. For instance, sometimes linguistic material that represents new information is no...

Variability of speaker accent is a challenge for effective human communication as well as speech technology including automatic speech recognition and accent identification. The motivation of this study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of accent variation across speakers from a cognitive perspective. The goal is to provide perceptual assessment of accent variation in native and Englis...

Intonational typology has recently begun to scrutinize the typology of accent beyond the common binary distinction of ‘stress accent’ and ‘pitch accent’ (or ‘non-stress’ accent). Contributing to this research, this study considers the phonetic correlates of accent and its patterns of distribution in the Kuninjku dialect of Bininj Gun-wok (BGW), a polysynthetic language spoken in Northern Austra...