The Wildcat Corpus of Native-and Foreign-accented English
Communicative Efficiency across Conversational Dyads with Varying Language Alignment Profiles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10256258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin J Van Engen (0000-0001-9069-5464, Northwestern University, corresponding author), Melissa M Baese‐berk (0000-0002-4855-9319, Northwestern University), Melissa Baese-Berk (Northwestern University), Rachel E Baker (0000-0002-2661-8103, Northwestern University), Arim Choi (Northwestern University), Midam Kim (Northwestern University), Ann Bradlow (0000-0001-5560-6059, Northwestern University), Ann R Bradlow (Northwestern University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 510-540 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0023830910372495 |
| PMID | 21313992 |
| OpenAlex | W2151305291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 48 |
This paper describes the development of the Wildcat Corpus of native- and foreign-accented English, a corpus containing scripted and spontaneous speech recordings from 24 native speakers of American English and 52 non-native speakers of English. The core element of this corpus is a set of spontaneous speech recordings, for which a new method of eliciting dialogue-based, laboratory-quality speech recordings was developed (the Diapix task). Dialogues between two native speakers of English, between two non-native speakers of English (with either shared or different L1s), and between one native and one non-native speaker of English are included and analyzed in terms of general measures of communicative efficiency. The overall finding was that pairs of native talkers were most efficient, followed by mixed native/non-native pairs and non-native pairs with shared L1. Non-native pairs with different L1s were least efficient. These results support the hypothesis that successful speech communication depends both on the alignment of talkers to the target language and on the alignment of talkers to one another in terms of native language background
First language · Linguistics · Native american · Sociology · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems
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| Unique citing works | 34 |
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| Citations per year | 2,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |