What is it about?
This study attempts to determine whether native English listeners are capable of reliably detecting a foreign accent in English vowels in monosyllabic (CVC) words spoken by Australian and Japanese talkers.
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Why is it important?
The results suggest that, apart from a combination of F1, F2 and duration of vowels, there remain some unexplained cues that enabled native listeners to distinguish native from non-native talkers.
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This page is a summary of: Japanese-accented English vowels: a perception study, Asia Pacific Journal of Speech Language and Hearing, January 1998, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1179/136132898805577287.
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