Is there an interlanguage speech credibility benefit?

Topics in Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 30-44

  Podlipský, Václav Jonáš ^a   Šimáčková, Šárka ^a   Petráž, David ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

comprehensibility; credibility; foreign accent; intelligibility; perceptual fluency; second language acquisition; speech perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975469502     PISSN: 13377590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/topling-2016-0003     Document Type: Article

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