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Does contextual information within a sentence affect the relationship between word level intelligibility and the Functional Load principle among ELF users? A preliminary study Reviewed

George O’Neal

Asian Englishes 1 - 17 2023.9

Does the Functional Load Principle Predict How Important Phonemic Contrasts Are to Intelligibility Among ELF Users? A Partial Replication of Munro and Derwing (2006) From an ELF Perspective Reviewed

George O’Neal, Lance Latham

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 46 ( 1 ) 3 - 18 2023.2

Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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The Functional Load (FL) principle predicts that high FL phonemic contrasts, such as /i:/ and /ɪ/, contribute more to the mutual intelligibility of pronunciation than low FL phonemic contrasts, such as /u:/ and /ʊ/. In order to assess whether the FL principle accurately predicts intelligibility under English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) conditions, this study partially replicated the first study to empirically support the FL principle: Munro and Derwing (2006). Chinese speakers of English recorded 24 sentences containing target words with high and low FL phoneme substitutions, and 171 Japanese university students listened to the sentences and transcribed the target words into standard orthography. The hypothesis of this study is that the target words with high FL phoneme substitutions will be less intelligible than the target words with low FL phoneme substitutions. The results showed that the target words with high FL phoneme substitutions were indeed lower in intelligibility than the target words with low FL phoneme substitutions, and furthermore cumulative high FL phoneme substitutions lower intelligibility even more. The results are consistent with Munro and Derwing’s (2006) finding that high FL phoneme substitutions lower comprehensibility more than low FL phoneme substitutions, and thus this study claims to have replicated one aspect of their study even under ELF conditions.

DOI： 10.1515/cjal-2023-0101

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What is the effect of successive segmental repair on the mutual intelligibility of ELF users? Reviewed

George O'Neal

System 103 102683 - 102683 2021.12

Does an ELF phonology exist? Reviewed

George O’Neal

Asian Englishes 1 - 15 2020.1

Systematicity in linguistic feature selection: Repair sequences and subsequent accommodation Reviewed

George O’Neal

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 8 ( 2 ) 211 - 233 2019.11

Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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This study examines linguistic feature selection and its relationship with repair sequences in a longitudinal corpus of Japanese–Filipino business ELF interactions. In the corpus, Japanese employees communicate once a month with Filipino employees via computer software to confirm infrastructure status at a Filipino company’s factories. Comparative constructions frequently appear in the corpus because of the nature of the interactions, but the kinds and frequencies of comparative constructions change month to month. This study demonstrates that early in the corpus, the speakers utilized a multitude of comparative constructions, but after 12 months, the speakers have settled on one preferred comparative construction. Furthermore, the preferred construction emerged from repair sequences, which suggests that repair is significantly related to linguistic feature selection. Accordingly, this study hypothesizes that repair sequences do far more than just resolve an interactional problem; repaired linguistic features are more likely to be selected again the next time a similar linguistic feature is relevant to the progression of the interaction.

DOI： 10.1515/jelf-2019-2025

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Beyond intelligibility: ‘Transintelligibility’ phenomena in English as a Lingua Franca interactions Reviewed

George O'Neal, Yumi Matsumoto

International Journal of Applied Linguistics 29 ( 1 ) 44 - 60 2019.3

The accommodation of intelligible segmental pronunciation Reviewed

George O’Neal

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 5 ( 1 ) 119 - 138 2019

Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：John Benjamins Publishing Company

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This qualitative and quantitative study applies conversation analytic methodology to the examination of mutual
intelligibility, and then quantifies the segmental repairs and segmental adjustments that were required to maintain
intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca interactions among students at a Japanese university. In the qualitative portion,
sequential analysis was used to ascertain the segmental repairs that were utilized to maintain mutual intelligibility and to
identify the pronunciations that interactants oriented to as unintelligible and intelligible, which can then be compared to
determine the segmental adjustments that changed an unintelligible pronunciation into an intelligible one. In the quantitative
portion, the segmental repairs and the segmental adjustments were quantified in order to assess which kinds of segmental repairs
and segmental adjustments are most frequent. This study concludes that reactive repair is the most frequent segmental repair, and
modification is the most frequent segmental adjustment.

DOI： 10.1075/jslp.17002.one

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Intelligibility and Segmental Phoneme Repair Strategies in English-as-a-Lingua-Franca Interactions among Chinese and Japanese Speakers of English Reviewed

George O'Neal

Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 39 ( 4 ) 2016.1

Segmental repair and interactional intelligibility: The relationship between consonant deletion, consonant insertion, and pronunciation intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca in Japan Reviewed

George O'Neal

JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS 85 122 - 134 2015.8

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

This is a qualitative study of the relationship between consonant deletion, consonant insertion, and the pragmatic strategies that maintain mutual intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca (hereafter, ELF) interactions among university and exchange students at a Japanese university (Jenkins, 2000; Matsumoto, 2011; O'Neal, 2015). Some ELF research claims that consonant deletion attenuates mutual intelligibility in ELF interactions, especially if the consonant deletion occurs in word-initial and word-medial consonant clusters or in consonant clusters in syllable onsets and codas (Jenkins, 2000, 2007; Deterding, 2013). This study assesses the effect of consonant deletion and consonant insertion on the mutual intelligibility of pronunciation in ELF interactions in Japan. Using conversation analytic methodology to examine a corpus of miscommunications among ELF speakers at a Japanese university, within which miscommunications are defined as repair sequences, this study claims that consonant deletion can attenuate mutual intelligibility, and that the insertion of a deleted consonant into a word can help restore mutual intelligibility. Furthermore, this is true regardless of deviance from or approximation to a native speaker pronunciation standard. This study concludes that segmental repair is an effective strategy with which English speakers can maintain mutual intelligibility. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

DOI： 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.06.013

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Interactional intelligibility: the relationship between consonant modification and pronunciation intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca in Japan Reviewed

George O'Neal

Asian Englishes 17 ( 3 ) 222 2015.5

ELF intelligibility: the vowel quality factor Reviewed

George O'Neal

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca 4 ( 2 ) 2015.1

Consonant clusters and intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca in Japan Phonological modifications to restore intelligibility in ELF Reviewed

George O'Neal

PRAGMATICS AND SOCIETY 6 ( 4 ) 615 - 636 2015

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO

This is a qualitative study of the relationship between consonant cluster articulation and intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca interactions in Japan (Jenkins 2000; Matsumoto 2011). Some research has claimed that the full articulation of consonant clusters in lexeme-initial and lexeme-medial position is critical to the maintenance of intelligibility (Jenkins 2000, 2002, 2007; Walker 2010; Deterding 2013). Using conversation analytic methodology to examine a corpus of repair sequences in interactions among English as a Lingua Franca speakers at a Japanese university, this study claims that consonant elision in consonant clusters in lexeme-initial, lexeme-medial, and lexeme-final position can attenuate intelligibility, and that the insertion of an elided consonant into a word that was oriented to as unintelligible can help restore intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca.

DOI： 10.1075/ps.6.4.07one

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