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Query Subject:	Accent Judgement Tests
Author:	Roberto Perez
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Phonology Sociolinguistics

Query:	Hello everyone, I am doing research on the perception of accented English (i.e., English with a local, regional, or foreign accent) by US college students. I would like to find a standard instrument (or a previous study that used an instrument) where listeners had to rate a person's speech based on accent (e.g., how clear it was, it it was associated with a specific social level or region, if it was a foreign accent, etc.). I'm envisioning something with Likert scales or maybe semantic differential scales. In the context of the US, one of my interests is to measure a listener's perception of whether a given accent is identified as a NS or a NNS pronunciation; another goal is to measure whether a given accent is perceived as a Hispanic accent. In both cases, the instrument would ask listeners the degree to which those accents were considered ''X'' (i.e., how heavy of an accent it was). If you know of any studies/articles in this area, or any scales/instruments that could be used for accent judgement activities, I'd appreciate hearing from you. Best regards, Roberto Perez rgp6722@mailer.fsu.edu
LL Issue:	17.1671
Date posted:	02-Jun-2006
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