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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Phon. 2013 Oct 16;41(6):10.1016/j.wocn.2013.09.003. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2013.09.003
Talker Native Language Gender Overall degree of accent Overall level of comprehensibility Overall level of intelligibility (sentence level)
E1 English male 1.1 1.0 99.5
E2 English male 1.4 1.2 99.7
E3 English female 1.1 1.1 99.4
E4 English female 1.1 1.1 99.1

F1 French male 6.3 4.2 93.4
F2 French male 4.7 2.9 95.9
F3 French female 4.1 2.5 97.2
F4 French female 4.3 2.8 97.5

G1 German male 3.6 2.4 97.7
G2 German male 3.0 2.0 96.8
G3 German female 4.8 3.0 97.1
G4 German female 3.0 2.0 97.9

J1 Japanese male 5.9 4.1 88.7
J2 Japanese male 5.5 3.5 91.7
J3 Japanese female 6.0 3.9 91.0
J4 Japanese female 6.5 4.9 95.0

K1 Korean male 5.8 3.6 93.7
K2 Korean male 5.8 3.6 95.1
K3 Korean female 5.1 3.4 96.2
K4 Korean female 5.5 3.3 96.5

M1 Mandarin male 4.1 2.8 95.6
M2 Mandarin male 3.7 2.5 96.5
M3 Mandarin female 4.4 2.8 96.9
M4 Mandarin female 4.8 3.6 96.6

S1 Spanish male 5.9 3.8 92.0
S2 Spanish male 7.9 6.1 92.5
S3 Spanish female 6.2 4.3 90.9
S4 Spanish female 6.8 4.7 92.2