EFFECTS OF LENGTH OF RESIDENCE AND SPEECH ACTIVITIES ON DEGREE OF FOREIGN ACCENT

Xinchun Wang1 & Jianhong Chen2
1California State University, Fresno; 2The University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

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A group of native Mandarin speaking professors teaching in a US university with a mean length of residence (LOR) of 12 years in North America was rated as accented as a group of native Mandarin speaking professors teaching English in China. Different speech activities did not appear to affect degree of accent. However, long excerpt of filtered speech may be used with caution for accent rating.