Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis

Yang, Hsiao-Tzu

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Title:	Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis
Author(s):	Yang, Hsiao-Tzu
Doctoral Committee Chair(s):	Pandharipande, Rajeshwari
Department / Program:	Linguistics
Discipline:	Linguistics
Degree Granting Institution:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree:	Ph.D.
Genre:	Dissertation
Subject(s):	Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Abstract:	Finally, I conclude my study by suggesting that English language teachers deploy a contrastive analysis to help students understand how their ways of speaking differ from standard spoken English and other varieties of English, in preparation for developing appropriate speech accommodation strategies in interaction with other English speakers for effective communication.
Issue Date:	2005
Type:	Text
Language:	English
Description:	177 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82632
Other Identifier(s):	(MiAaPQ)AAI3199183
Date Available in IDEALS:	2015-09-25
Date Deposited:	2005