foreign accent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofforeignandaccent
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foreign
adjective
uk/ˈfɒr.ən/us/ˈfɔːr.ən/
belonging or connected to a country that is not ...
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accent
noun[C]
uk/ˈæk.sənt/us/ˈæk.sənt/
the way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group ...
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(Definition offoreignandaccentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofforeign accent
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Factors affecting degree of perceivedforeignaccentin a second language.
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Factors affecting strength of perceivedforeignaccentin a second language.
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The fact that bilingual speakers very often show aforeignaccentis consistent with this idea.
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Factors affecting strength of perceivedforeignaccentin second language.
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The primary purpose of this study was to examine changes over time inforeignaccent.
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It is possible that sentence duration acts as a perceptual cue to degree offoreignaccentindependently of variation in phonetic accuracy.
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The results obtained here suggest that age at the time of test does not affect degree offoreignaccent.
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The second aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of sentence duration on overall degree of perceivedforeignaccent.
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Acoustic analyses and listener judgments were used to determine how accurately the suprasegmentals were produced and to what extent they contributed toforeignaccent.
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There is other reason to think, however, that variation in sentence duration does not cueforeignaccent.
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Some speakers made significant improvement, however, in both globalforeignaccentand liquid identifiability and accuracy.
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Using a read-aloud task, as well as narration, subjects were rated for degree offoreignaccent.
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Our primary interest here was the relation between theforeignaccentratings and bilingual dominance.
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That is, some researchers believe that there are people who can learn a new language after puberty without any trace of aforeignaccent.
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The listeners rated each stimulus using a scale that ranged from 1 (very strongforeignaccent) to 9 (noforeignaccent).
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Two previous studies provided correlational evidence in support of the hypothesis that chronological age affectsforeignaccent.
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The validity and reliability of scalingforeignaccent.
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No definition offoreignaccentwas provided, and the listeners were not told they would hear pairs of sentences spoken by the same individual.
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The number of segmental errors and sentence duration values accounted for 39% of the variance in theforeignaccentratings.
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