{"pk":26362,"title":"Listener sensitivity to foreign-accented speech with grammatical errors","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The present accent rating study investigates the interactionbetween accent strength and grammatical correctness on per-ceived accentedness. German native (L1) listeners rated Ger-man sentences produced by L1 and non-native (L2) speakers.Sentences either contained a grammatical error or were gram-matically correct. Results showed that grammatical correct-ness affected the accent rating of sentences produced by L1speakers, but not of those by L2 speakers. The inverse influ-ence of grammatical errors on sentences spoken with strongeraccents suggests that phonological information plays a moreimportant role for global perception of speech accentednessthan grammatical correctness does, revealing a hierarchical im-portance of factors that form an L2 accent. This finding is inline with recent findings from an online processing ERP study(Hanul ́ıkov ́a, van Alphen, van Goch, & Weber, 2012) in whichL1 listeners were tolerant towards grammatical errors made byL2 speakers, i.e. showed no P600 effect for grammatically in-correct sentences.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"perceived accent strength; grammatical error"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/84j783qr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yuki","middle_name":"","last_name":"Asano","name_suffix":"","institution":"Eberhard Karls University Tubingen","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Weber","name_suffix":"","institution":"Eberhard Karls University Tubingen","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26362/galley/15998/download/"}]}