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The Wildcat Corpus of native- and foreign-accented English: communicative efficiency across conversational dyads with varying language alignment profiles.
Van Engen, Kristin J; Baese-Berk, Melissa; Baker, Rachel E; Choi, Arim; Kim, Midam; Bradlow, Ann R.
  • Van Engen KJ; Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-4090, USA. k-van@northwestern.edu
Lang Speech ; 53(Pt 4): 510-40, 2010.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21313992
ABSTRACT
This paper describes the development of the Wildcat Corpus of native- and foreign-accented English,a corpus containing scripted and spontaneous speech recordings from 24 native speakers of American English and 52 non-native speakers of English.The core element of this corpus is a set of spontaneous speech recordings, for which a new method of eliciting dialogue-based, laboratory-quality speech recordings was developed (the Diapix task). Dialogues between two native speakers of English, between two non-native speakers of English (with either shared or different LIs), and between one native and one non-native speaker of English are included and analyzed in terms of general measures of communicative efficiency.The overall finding was that pairs of native talkers were most efficient, followed by mixed native/non-native pairs and non-native pairs with shared LI. Non-native pairs with different LIs were least efficient.These results support the hypothesis that successful speech communication depends both on the alignment of talkers to the target language and on the alignment of talkers to one another in terms of native language background.
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Texto completo: 1 Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Acústica del Lenguaje / Inteligibilidad del Habla / Percepción del Habla / Fonética / Comunicación / Lenguaje Límite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Año: 2010 Tipo del documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Banco de datos: MEDLINE Asunto principal: Acústica del Lenguaje / Inteligibilidad del Habla / Percepción del Habla / Fonética / Comunicación / Lenguaje Límite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Año: 2010 Tipo del documento: Article