Tessa Bent

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tessa Bent plays a role.

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Bent, Tessa, Ann R. Bradlow and Bruce L. Smith 2007 Phonemic errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All’s well that begins well Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 331–347 | Article
Speech produced by non-native talkers deviates from native talker norms in systematic ways that reflect the interaction between the talker’s native language and the target language. These deviations result in speech that is almost always easily identified by native listeners as “foreign-accented”… read more