L2 SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY: EFFECTS OF CODA MODIFICATION, DEGREE OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION AND LISTENERS’ BACKGROUND

ABSTRACT The present study aims to investigate how the intelligibility of non-target word-final codas is affected by the type of coda modification, the degree of semantic information, and the listeners’ first language (L1). Furthermore, a correlational approach is adopted to examine possible relatio...

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Main Authors: Rosane Silveira, Thaïs Cristófaro Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Series:Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982018000300639&lng=en&tlng=en