Age and understanding speakers with Spanish or Taiwanese accents
Age and understanding speakers with Spanish or Taiwanese accents
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DOI：
10.2466/pms.97.4.11-20
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发表时间：
2003-08-01
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Edwards, HT
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作者：
Burda, AN;Scherz, JA;Edwards, HT
这项初步研究关注的是不同年龄段的听者口音的可理解性。72名以英语为母语的人，代表三个年龄段(20-39岁、40-59岁、60岁及以上)，听以英语、台语和西班牙语为母语的人创造的单词和句子。在听者转录单词和句子的同时，听者也对说话者的可理解性和重音进行评分，前者指的是听话者理解话语的难度，后者指的是说话者的外国口音被认为有多重。在可理解性测量方面，老年人在理解带有口音的人方面比其他两个年龄组的人更难理解。听众，无论年龄大小，如果他们认为说话者更容易理解，他们更有可能做出正确的回答。可理解性评分与重音评分高度相关。
This pilot study concerned the intelligibility of accented speech for listeners of different ages. 72 native speakers of English, representing three age groups (20-39, 40-59, 60 and older) listened to words and sentences produced by native speakers of English, Taiwanese, and Spanish. Listeners transcribed words and sentences, Listeners also rated speakers' comprehensibility, i.e., listeners' perceptions of difficulty in understanding utterances, and accentedness, i.e., how strong a speaker's foreign accent is perceived to be. On intelligibility Measures, older adults had significantly greater difficulty in understanding individuals with accented speech than the other two age groups. Listeners, regardless of age, were more likely to provide correct responses if they perceived the speaker easier to understand. Ratings of comprehensibility were highly correlated with ratings of accentedness.