Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Non-native pronunciations of English

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 18:10, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Non-native pronunciations of English
Two weeks ago I added the tag to this and left a message on the talk page saying "as far as I can tell, there are no cited sources here, but just vague impressions people have of various foreign accents, which amounts to very unscientific original research." Nothing has changed since then. Every single contribution to this page is original research. I doubt sources even could be added, because AFAIK linguistic research is not published on this sort of thing. Therefore, delete. Angr/undefined 08:00, 31 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, but try to find some references. I would be very surprised if linguistic research has not been published on this sort of thing. Dunc|&#9786; 16:40, 31 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, there is research. We only need to add the references. E.g. Wiik, K. (1965). Finnish and English Vowels: A comparison with special reference to the learning problems met by native speakers of Finnish learning English. Turku: Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Series B, Tom. 94. --Vuo 16:53, 31 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep, with citations. Binadot 02:36, 1 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Definitely Keep, agreeing with comments by Dunc, Vuo, and Binadot above. Very interesting subject and something I have thought about for a long time. It would be terrific if this could be annotated with sound files of actual speakers demonstrating some of these speech patterns. Probably not feasible though. DanMS 04:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. Is there anything wrong in the article? If so, please feel free to correct it. It would be very surprising if the field of teaching English to native speakers of other languages has no research on pronunciation. Fg2 11:37, August 5, 2005 (UTC)
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