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Peer reviewedMatsuura, Hiroko; Chiba, Reiko; Fujieda, Miho – World Englishes, 1999
Examined the effect of familiarity with different English accents, investigating Japanese college students' intelligibility and comprehensibility judgements of familiar and unfamiliar English (American and Irish English). Results indicated that familiarity and exposure contributed to higher perceived comprehensibility, but not necessarily to…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Dialects, English
