Mary Grantham O’Brien

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mary Grantham O’Brien is involved.

Journals

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

Edited by Dustin Crowther

ISSN 2215-1931 | E‑ISSN 2215‑194X

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272

Teló, Cesar, Ryuichi Suzuki, Lin Lu, Gento Okawa, Tahiyyah Ahmed, Zineb Balmouddane, Mayra Carvajal, Karolyn Chen, Mahdieh (Mah) Fallahnejad, Byunghak Kim, Annika Kovacs, Sawri Madkaikar, Lia Mejía, Alet Odal, Thi Thuy Dung Pham, Yung Flora See, Mary Grantham O’Brien and Pavel Trofimovich 2026 A collaborative journey in pronunciation: Lessons from a community-engaged accent bias project Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 12:1, pp. 114–130 | Squib

While research on accent bias has demonstrated the potential real-world impact of speaking with a second language accent, the results of this work rarely make their way into the hands of practitioners. Inspired by participatory action research models, this contribution responds to calls to more… read more

Maczuga, Paulina, Johannes Knaus and Mary Grantham O’Brien 2024 A principled approach to teaching German lexical stress assignment Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:1, pp. 126–137 | Article

This paper reports on the decisions made in the development and delivery of the training outlined in Maczuga, O’Brien and Knaus (2017). Framed within a Processing Instruction framework, this contribution considers previous input-based training research, which has primarily focused on the… read more

Teló, Cesar, Pavel Trofimovich and Mary Grantham O’Brien 2022 Disentangling professional competence and foreign accent Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:3, pp. 413–443 | Article

This study examined listeners’ evaluations of first (L1) and second language (L2) English speech in work-related contexts. Ninety-six English-speaking listeners from Calgary rated audio recordings of 12 English speakers (6 L1 English, 6 L1 Tagalog) along three continua capturing one professional… read more

Trofimovich, Pavel, Charlie Nagle, Mary Grantham O’Brien, Sara Kennedy, Kym Taylor Reid and Lauren Strachan 2022 Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct 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. 153–179 | Chapter

This study examined longitudinal changes in second language (L2) interlocutors’ mutual comprehensibility ratings (perceived ease of understanding speech), targeting comprehensibility as a dynamic, time-varying, interaction-centered construct. In a repeated-measures, within-participants design,… read more

Taylor Reid, Kym, Mary Grantham O’Brien, Pavel Trofimovich and Allison Bajt 2020 Testing the malleability of teachers’ judgments of second language speech Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:2, pp. 236–264 | Article

This study examined whether a negative social bias can influence how teachers evaluate second language (L2) speech. Twenty-eight teachers of L2 German from Western Canada – 14 native speakers (NSs) and 14 proficient non-native speakers (NNSs) – rated recordings of 24 adult L2 learners of German… read more

Trofimovich, Pavel, Charlie Nagle, Mary Grantham O’Brien, Sara Kennedy, Kym Taylor Reid and Lauren Strachan 2020 Second language comprehensibility as a dynamic construct 25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 430–457 | Article

This study examined longitudinal changes in second language (L2) interlocutors’ mutual comprehensibility ratings (perceived ease of understanding speech), targeting comprehensibility as a dynamic, time-varying, interaction-centered construct. In a repeated-measures, within-participants design,… read more

O’Brien, Mary Grantham, Tracey M. Derwing, Catia Cucchiarini, Debra M. Hardison, Hansjörg Mixdorff, Ron I. Thomson, Helmer Strik, John M. Levis, Murray J. Munro, Jennifer A. Foote and Greta Muller Levis 2018 Directions for the future of technology in pronunciation research and teaching Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 4:2, pp. 182–207 | Article

This paper reports on the role of technology in state-of-the-art pronunciation research and instruction, and makes concrete suggestions for future developments. The point of departure for this contribution is that the goal of second language (L2) pronunciation research and teaching should be… read more

O’Brien, Mary Grantham 2017 Schmitt, 2016. Teaching English Pronunciation: A textbook for the German-speaking countries Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3:2, pp. 298–302 | Review

O’Brien, Mary Grantham 2013 Investigating second language pronunciation Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education, Siemund, Peter, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova (eds.), pp. 39–62 | Article

Pronunciation that deviates from native norms – what many refer to as a ‘foreign accent’ – in second and additional languages acts an immediate marker. It has been shown to negatively affect attitudes toward the speaker in question. Native speakers of a given language are tuned in to accents, and… read more

O’Brien, Mary Grantham, Alison Klara Eisel Hendricks and Alison Klara Eisel Hendricks 2013  Making use of cues to sentence length in L1 and L2 German  Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:4, pp. 448–477 | Article

The current study examines whether German native speakers and immersed and non-immersed L2 learners of German use prosodic cues to identify the length of a sentence in perception as a means to investigate the interaction between prosody and syntactic structure among L2 learners. In a perceptual… read more