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Thir, Veronika 2022 International intelligibility revisited: L2 realizations of NURSE and TRAP and functional load The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 181–205 | Chapter

The Lingua Franca Core (LFC) proposes that NURSE is the only vowel quality important for international intelligibility, yet research findings regarding this issue are mixed. Moreover, it is unclear whether phonetic (rather than phonemic) substitutions of NURSE also affect international… read more

Thir, Veronika 2020 Sewell, Andrew. (2016). English pronunciation models in a globalized world: Accent, acceptability and Hong Kong English Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:1, pp. 127–131 | Review

Thir, Veronika 2020 International intelligibility revisited: L2 realizations of NURSE and TRAP and functional load 25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 458–482 | Article

The Lingua Franca Core (LFC) proposes that NURSE is the only vowel quality important for international intelligibility, yet research findings regarding this issue are mixed. Moreover, it is unclear whether phonetic (rather than phonemic) substitutions of NURSE also affect international… read more

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