Sep 2026
Accentedness and Comprehensibility in Second Language Cantonese: An Investigation of Mandarin Learners' Read Speech.
Research on accentedness and comprehensibility has largely focused on nontonal target languages, leaving it unclear whether established predictors of these two constructs apply to tonal languages with complex tone systems, such as Cantonese. We investigated 40 Mandarin-speaking learners' read speech in second language...
Zi-Wen Pan, Yike Yang, Yue Zou et al.
· Language and Speech · 0 citations