eprintid: 10108052
rev_number: 24
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/10/80/52
datestamp: 2020-08-20 10:33:51
lastmod: 2021-12-23 23:09:58
status_changed: 2021-01-07 19:07:56
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Isaacs, T
creators_name: Thomson, RI
title: Reactions to second language speech: Influences of discrete speech characteristics, rater experience, and speaker first language background
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J77
keywords: accent , comprehensibility , English as a second language , fluency , pronunciation assessment , raters , rating scales and speech perception
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abstract: This study investigates how Mandarin and Slavic language speakers’ comprehensibility, accentedness, and fluency ratings, as assigned by experienced teacher-raters and novice raters, align with discrete linguistic measures, and raters’ accounts of influences on their scoring. In addition to examining mean ratings in relation to rater experience and speaker first language background, we correlated ratings with segmental, prosodic, and temporal measures. Introspective reports were segmented, coded, enumerated, and submitted to loglinear analysis to elucidate influences on ratings. Results showed that ratings were strongly correlated with prosodic goodness and moderately correlated with segmental errors, implying the importance of both segmentals and prosody in L2 speech ratings. Experienced teacher-raters provided lengthier reports than novice raters, producing more comments for all coded categories where an error was identified except for pausing (a dysfluency marker). This may be because novice raters observed little else about the speech or struggled to pinpoint or articulate other features.
date: 2020-11
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20018.isa
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1808556
doi: 10.1075/jslp.20018.isa
lyricists_name: Isaacs, Talia
lyricists_id: TISAA83
actors_name: Isaacs, Talia
actors_id: TISAA83
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
volume: 6
number: 3
pagerange: 402-429
issn: 2215-1931
citation:        Isaacs, T;    Thomson, RI;      (2020)    Reactions to second language speech: Influences of discrete speech characteristics, rater experience, and speaker first language background.                   Journal of Second Language Pronunciation , 6  (3)   pp. 402-429.    10.1075/jslp.20018.isa <https://doi.org/10.1075/jslp.20018.isa>.       Green open access   
 
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