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When adult Canadian French (henceforth CF) learners of English as a second language (L2) speak English, two striking aspects of their French accent are incorrect production of English word stress and incorrect production of vowel reduction (Capliez, 2011; Frost, 2011; Ploquin, 2009; Tremblay and Owens, 2010). Either CF speakers place word stress on the wrong syllable and reduce the vowels of the wrong syllables, or they omit one or both of these pronunciation features altogether.
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Lepage, A., LaCharité, D. (2015). Perceptions of Intelligibility and RTs: Accent-Tolerant vs Non-Accent-Tolerant Listeners. In: Mompean, J.A., Fouz-González, J. (eds) Investigating English Pronunciation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137509437_5
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