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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/8F0Q0L |
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Publication Date
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2023-06-30 |
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Title
| Replication Data for: Listening to Accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech |
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Author
| Verbeke, Gil (Ghent University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-9491-9557
Simon, Ellen (Ghent University) - ORCID: 0000-0002-5095-8693 |
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Point of Contact
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Verbeke, Gil (Ghent University) |
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Description
| Dataset abstract
This dataset contains the results from 33 Flemish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, who were exposed to eight native and non-native accents of English. These participants completed (i) a comprehensibility and accentedness rating task, followed by (ii) an orthographic transcription task. In the first task, listeners were asked to rate eight speakers of English on comprehensibility and accentedness on a nine-point scale (1 = easy to understand/no accent; 9 = hard to understand/strong accent). How Accentedness ratings and listeners' Familiarity with the different accents impacted on their Comprehensibility judgements was measured using a linear mixed-effects model. The orthographic transcription task, then, was used to verify how well listeners actually understood the different accents of English (i.e. intelligibility). To that end, participants' transcription Accuracy was measured as the number of correctly transcribed words and was estimated using a logistic mixed-effects model. Finally, the relation between listeners' self-reported ease of understanding the different speakers (comprehensibility) and their actual understanding of the speakers (intelligibility) was assessed using a linear mixed-effects regression. R code for the data analysis is provided.
Article abstract
This study investigates how well English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners report understanding (i.e. comprehensibility) and actually understand (i.e. intelligibility) native and non-native accents of English, and how EFL learners’ self-reported ease of understanding and actual understanding of these accents are aligned. Thirty-three Dutch-speaking EFL learners performed a comprehensibility and accentedness judgement task, followed by an orthographic transcription task. The judgement task elicited listeners’ scalar ratings of authentic speech from eight speakers with traditional Inner, Outer and Expanding Circle accents. The transcription task assessed listeners’ actual understanding of 40 sentences produced by the same eight speakers. Speakers with Inner Circle accents were reported to be more comprehensible than speakers with non-Inner Circle accents, with Expanding Circle speakers being easier to understand than Outer Circle speakers. The strength of a speaker’s accent significantly affected listeners’ comprehensibility ratings. Most speakers were highly intelligible, with intelligibility scores ranging between 79% and 95%. Listeners’ self-reported ease of understanding the speakers in our study generally matched their actual understanding of those speakers, but no correlation between comprehensibility and intelligibility was detected. The study foregrounds the effect of native and non-native accents on comprehensibility and intelligibility, and highlights the importance of multidialectal listening skills. (2023-05-04) |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| L2 listening
comprehensibility
accentedness
intelligibility
English as a Foreign Language
World Englishes
accented speech
language variation |
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Related Publication
| Gil Verbeke, Ellen Simon, Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech, Lingua, Volume 292, 2023, 103572, ISSN 0024-3841, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103572 doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103572 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103572 |
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Language
| English |
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Producer
| Ghent University (UGent) https://www.ugent.be/ 
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Production Date
| 2022 |
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Production Location
| Belgium, Flanders |
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Funding Information
| Ghent University: BOF.STG.2018.0012.01 |
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Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
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Depositor
| Verbeke, Gil |
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Deposit Date
| 2022-03-31 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 2021-11 ; End Date: 2022-01 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2021-11 ; End Date: 2022-01 |
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Data Type
| comprehensibility and accentedness ratings; orthographic transcription data |
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Software
| R, Version: 4.2.0
MS Excel, Version: 16.54
RStudio, Version: 2022.2.1.461
Praat, Version: 6.2.09 |
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Data Source
| The sample texts used in the data file Listening_to_Accents_Stimuli_Task_1.csv are transcripts of excerpts from the following talk shows/radio interviews:
The sample texts used in the data file Listening_to_Accents_Stimuli_Task_2.csv are transcripts of excerpts from the following talk shows/radio interviews:
The lawful redistribution of the selected parts from these resources as compiled in the two data files "Listening_to_Accents_Stimuli_Task_1.csv" and "Listening_to_Accents_Stimuli_Task_2.csv" is based on exceptions from copyright/IPR protection such as sitatretten in Norway (cf. § 29 in Lov om opphavsrett til åndsverk mv.), Fair dealing in the UK (cf. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright#fair-dealing), and Fair use in the USA (cf. https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html), which allow redistributing smaller parts from copyrighted resources provided proper citation is given. |
