Practice question · Numerical answer
How many dimensions of listener judgement do Munro and Derwing separate?
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- One is objective and two are ratings.
- Intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness.
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3
Why
Three. The separation matters because they are only partly correlated: speech can be fully intelligible, moderately effortful and strongly accented all at once, and treating those as one property produces both bad research and bad teaching.
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