Relatedly, but anecdotally, a severely hearing-impaired friend of mine who
depends largely on lip-reading complains about people trying to
hyperarticulate to him, which just makes things more difficult to
understand.
Michael Johnstone
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jane Setter wrote:
> Dear Linda, and everyone
>
> Not exactly the same thing, but there is a paper by Derwing & Munro which
> finds that asking speakers to slow down doesn't necessarily benefit
> intelligibility.
>
> DERWING, T. M. and MUNRO, M. J. (2001). What speaking rates do non-native
> listeners prefer? _Applied Linguistics_ 22, (3), 324-337.
>
> Jane
>
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> University of Reading
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