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Direct linkRogers, Catherine L.; Dalby, Jonathan; Nishi, Kanae – Language and Speech, 2004
This study compared the intelligibility of native and foreign-accented English speech presented in quiet and mixed with three different levels of background noise. Two native American English speakers and four native Mandarin Chinese speakers for whom English is a second language each read a list of 50 phonetically balanced sentences (Egan, 1948).…
Descriptors: North American English, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
