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50
Citations
20880
World Ranking
2676
National Ranking
150

Overview

Murray J. Munro is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including Psychology, Social Sciences, and Computer Science, with a substantial focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work centers around themes in Phonetics and Phonology Research, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Second Language Acquisition and Learning, Language Development and Disorders, and Educational Assessment and Pedagogy.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Murray J. Munro include the following:

  • "Foreign accent, comprehensibility and intelligibility, redux" (2020), published in Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
  • "On the Difficulty of Defining "Difficult" in Second-Language Vowel Acquisition" (2021), published in Frontiers in Communication
  • "Pragmatically speaking" (2021), published in Applied Pragmatics
  • "How long can naturalistic L2 pronunciation learning continue in adults? A 10-year study" (2023), published in Language Awareness
  • "Listening to the "noise" in the data" (2023), published in Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

Murray J. Munro frequently collaborates with several co-authors. These include Tracey M. Derwing, Ron I. Thomson, Erin Waugh, Kazuya Saito, and Charlie Nagle.

Their publications often appear in specific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
  • Language Awareness
  • Frontiers in Communication
  • Applied Pragmatics
  • Language and Speech

Best Publications

  • Nonnative and second-language speech perception : commonalities and complementarities

    Catherine T Best;Michael D Tyler;Ocke-Schwen Bohn;Murray J Munro

  • Foreign accent, comprehensibility, and intelligibility in the speech of second language learners

    Murray J. Munro;Tracey M. Derwing

  • Second Language Accent and Pronunciation Teaching: A Research- Based Approach.

    Tracey M. Derwing;Murray J. Munro

  • Factors affecting strength of perceived foreign accent in a second language

    James Emil Flege;Murray J. Munro;Ian R. A. MacKay

  • Evidence in Favor of a Broad Framework for Pronunciation Instruction

    Tracey M. Derwing;Murray J. Munro;Grace Wiebe

  • Processing Time, Accent, and Comprehensibility in the Perception of Native and Foreign-Accented Speech:

    Murray J. Munro;Tracey M. Derwing

  • ACCENT, INTELLIGIBILITY, AND COMPREHENSIBILITY

    Tracey M. Derwing;Murray J. Munro

  • THE MUTUAL INTELLIGIBILITY OF L2 SPEECH

    Murray J. Munro;Tracey M. Derwing;Susan L. Morton

  • Pronunciation fundamentals : evidence-based perspectives for L2 teaching and research

    Tracey M. Derwing;Murray J. Munro

  • Putting Accent in Its Place: Rethinking Obstacles to Communication.

    Tracey M. Derwing;Murray J. Munro

  • Second Language Fluency: Judgments on Different Tasks

    Tracey M. Derwing;Marian J. Rossiter;Murray J. Munro;Ron I. Thomson

  • The functional load principle in ESL pronunciation instruction: An exploratory study

    Murray J. Munro;Tracey M. Derwing

  • Effects of age of second-language learning on the production of English consonants

    James Emil Flege;Murray J. Munro;Murray J. Munro;Ian R. A. MacKay

  • MODELING PERCEPTIONS OF THE ACCENTEDNESS AND COMPREHENSIBILITY OF L2 SPEECH The Role of Speaking Rate

    Murray J. Munro;Tracey M. Derwing

  • A Longitudinal Study of ESL Learners' Fluency and Comprehensibility Development.

    Tracey M. Derwing;Murray J. Munro;Ron I. Thomson

  • A Primer on Accent Discrimination in the Canadian Context

    Murray J. Munro

  • The Relationship between L1 Fluency and L2 Fluency Development.

    Tracey M. Derwing;Murray J. Munro;Ronald I. Thomson;Marian J. Rossiter

  • The Effects of Age of Second Language Learning on the Production of English Vowels.

    Murray J. Munro;James Emil Flege;Ian R. A. Mackay

  • The effects of speaking rate on listener evaluations of native and foreign-accented speech

    Murray J. Munro;Tracey M. Derwing

  • Nonsegmental Factors in Foreign Accent: Ratings of Filtered Speech

    Murray J. Munro

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracey M. Derwing
Tracey M. Derwing University of Alberta
James Emil Flege
James Emil Flege University of Alabama at Birmingham
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories

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