<p>This project aims to investigate phonetic correlates of foreign accent. Data are from the <a href="http://accent.gmu.edu/">Speech Accent Archive</a> hosted by the GMU linguistics program.</p> <p>We asked 110 native speakers of American English to rate the accentedness exhibited in 100 short audio snippets. We then analyzed how accentedness correlates with various phonetic features. </p> <p>Out findings could potentially be beneficial to English learners and ESL/EFL teachers. It is also our hope that the findings could help design more efficient speech recognition systems.</p> <p>This is an on-going project. Our preliminary results have been published by the Research in Language journal earlier this year (2018). A copy of the paper is attached <a href="https://osf.io/cvme2/">here</a>. Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.</p> <p>We could be reached on this platform or via emails at <b>zgao@gmu.edu</b> (Zhiyan Gao) or <b>weinberg@gmu.edu</b> (Prof. Steven Weinberger)</p> <p>Zhiyan Gao</p> [1]: https://mfr.osf.io/export?url=https://files.osf.io/v1/resources/uj4xq9f8vg/providers/osfstorage/5c0bc39e6be62d001b443335?direct=&mode=render&version=1&format=2400x2400.jpeg