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Peer reviewedAlford, Randall L.; Strother, Judith B. – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Provides data from a study that sought to determine and compare the attitudes of both native and nonnative speakers of English who listened to the specific regional accents of the English spoken in the United States. The groups judgments differed, and nonnative speakers were better able to perceive differences in regional accents of U.S. English.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Native Speakers
