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This paper describes the development of a methodology and software for phonetics designed with the support of the Internet and web technologies. A web application was created as a data gathering instrument for a phonetic study which aimed to detect the most frequent segmental markers of Macedonian-English accented speech as perceived by native speakers of English and to find out whether English native speakers of different backgrounds perceive the same segments as non-native. The results demonstrate the manifold advantages of the approach as well as the flexibility of its adaptation in applied linguistic research and second language learning/teaching.
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Kirkova-Naskova, A., Bakraceski, G., Apostolski, V., Trajanov, D. (2010). Phonetic Experiment Web Application. In: Davcev, D., Gómez, J.M. (eds) ICT Innovations 2009. ICT Innovations 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10781-8_25
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