Foreign accentedness revisited: Canadian and Singaporean raters’ perception of Japanese-accented English

• Kazuya Saito ^[1] ; Natsuko Shintani ^[2]
  1. [1] University of London

     University of London

     Reino Unido

     
  2. [2] University of Auckland

     University of Auckland

     Nueva Zelanda

     
• Localización: Language awareness, ISSN 0965-8416, Vol. 25, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 305-317
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/09658416.2016.1229784
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• Resumen

  • The current study examined how two groups of native speakers – monolingual Canadians and multilingual Singaporeans – differentially perceive foreign accentedness in spontaneous second language (L2) speech. The Singaporean raters, who had exposure to various models of English and also spoke multiple L2s on a daily basis, demonstrated more lenient accent scores than the Canadian raters, who used North American English as their primary language of communication. Both of them used a similar processing strategy to make such accentedness judgements – drawing exclusively on the phonological aspects of L2 speech without taking into account the appropriate/complex use of L2 lexicogrammar.