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Publication details [#53116]

Meddeb, Elizabeth J. and Patricia Frenz-Belkin. 2010. What? I Didn’t Say THAT!: Linguistic strategies when speaking to write. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (9) : 2415–2429.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | discourse strategy | language variety | misunderstanding | speech perception

Language as a subject

English, African American Vernacular

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study tries to identify strategies used by student speakers of non-standard varieties of American English when composing writing tasks with the speech recognition-based dictation software ViaVoice 98, in cases when the software misrecognized their speech.