Disentangling accent from comprehensibility

PAVEL TROFIMOVICH ^[1] ; TALIA ISAACS ^[2]
1. [1] Concordia University
  
  Concordia University
  
  Canadá
2. [2] University of Bristol
  
  University of Bristol
  
  Reino Unido
Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 15, Nº 4, 2012, págs. 905-916
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of English were examined in relation to accent and comprehensibility, as rated by 60 novice raters and three experienced teachers. Results showed that both constructs were associated with many speech measures, but that accent was uniquely related to aspects of phonology, including rhythm and segmental and syllable structure accuracy, while comprehensibility was chiefly linked to grammatical accuracy and lexical richness.