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Publication details [#50001]

Major, Roy C. 2007. Identifying a foreign accent in an unfamiliar language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 29 (4) : 539–556.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent1 | bilingualism | evaluation | listener | native speaker

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British | Portuguese, Brazilian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The findings of this study suggest that listeners' first and second languages and their familiarity with a foreign language do not strongly influence their ratings of foreign accents.