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Huensch, Amanda; Nagle, Charlie – Language Learning, 2021
This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency in instructed contexts. It conceptually replicated studies by Munro and Derwing (1995a) and Derwing and Munro (1997), who found partial independence among the three speech…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning, Comprehension, Dialects
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St. Clair, Robert – Language Sciences, 1973
The claim that dialects of a language do not always share the same underlying forms is known as the independency principle. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns