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Publication details [#66987]

Saito, Kazuya, Natsuko Shintani and Rie Koizumi. 2019. The relationship between multilingual raters’ language background and their perceptions of accentedness and comprehensibility of second language speech. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (7) : 849–869.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
comprehensibility | foreign accent | judgment | language background | multilingualism | raters | second language pronunciation
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This case study, involving six multilingual Singaporean raters, (1) examines multilingual raters’ judgements regarding the accentedness and comprehensibility of second language speech and (2) explores how the raters’ language backgrounds affect their judgements. The results suggested that notably the proficiency balance between multiple languages in early childhood, are related to their rating judgement.