Pronunciation

Pronunciation is one of the core areas of linguistics, language teaching and applied linguistics. It is a salient aspect of spoken language and is of widespread interest to researchers because of the window it provides on questions involving spoken language, and to teachers because of its relevance to the immediate concerns of classroom instruction. This new four volume collection will gather the key historical articles and contemporary research in pronunciation to provide a one stop research resource for student and scholar.

Table of Contents:
VOLUME IV: APPLICATIONS OF PRONUNCIATION RESEARCH Introduction: applications of pronunciation research 160 Comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar native accents under adverse listening conditions 61 Phonological testing reconsidered 62 Does a rater’s familiarity with a candidate’s pronunciation affect the rating in oral proficiency interviews? 63 Does popular speech recognition software work with ESL speech? 64 Applied linguistics and language analysis in asylum seeker cases 65 Air traffic communication in a second language: implications of cognitive factors for training and assessment 66 The role of ‘educated native speakers’ in providing language analysis for the determination of the origin of asylum seekers 67 Evaluative reactions to accents 68 Towards defining a valid assessment criterion of pronunciation proficiency in non-native English-speaking graduate students 69 Reverse linguistic stereotyping: measuring the effect of listener expectations on speech evaluation 70 Why don’t we believe non-native speakers? The influence of accent on credibility 71 Resolution on the Arizona Teachers’ English Fluency Initiative 72 Accents in business communication: an integrative model and propositions for future research 73 Age of second-language acquisition and perception of speech in noise 74 Social expectation improves speech perception in noise 75 A primer on accent discrimination in the Canadian context 76 Miscommunication in general aviation: the influence of external factors on communication errors 77 The halo effect: evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments78 Linguistics and the law: how knowledge of, or ignorance of, elementary linguistics may affect the dispensing of justice 79 Foreign accent in voice discrimination: a case study 80 Evaluation of a foreign speaker in forensic phonetics: a report 81 The role of accent as a work stressor on attitudinal and health-related work outcomes 82 Voice morphing and the manipulation of intra-speaker and cross-speaker phonetic variation to create foreign accent continua: a perceptual study 83 Cues to linguistic origin: the contribution of speech temporal information to foreign accent recognition, Index.