Investigating the judgements of Spanish accents: how critical are the Dutch?
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2016-05-30
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Globalization and multiculturalism is something the world cannot longer deny. Economies and cultures are coming closer together and that implies a fluid communication, mostly in a different language than the mother tongue. A growing number of people is therefore learning a second language (L2). Along with this learning process exist many difficulties, such as the development of a good pronunciation in order to avoid an accent. This research proposal deals with the effects of accented speech of Spanish learners of Dutch L2 on their intelligibility, accentedness and status as perceived by Dutch native speakers. An experiment is conducted to investigate these evaluations on the Spanish- accented Dutch L2 speakers with proficiency levels A1, A2, B1 and B2. Results show tendencies for correlations between intelligibility, accentedness and status judgements.
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