... clas-sification of dialect variation,” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana Uni-versity, Bloomington, Ind, USA, 2004.[9] M. Jilka, The contribution of intonation to the perception of foreign accent,” Doctoral ... comprehension of the speech.Previous studies on accent perception have focused on detection of nonnative accent (e.g., Jilka [9]; Munro [10]),and on the perceptual assessment of the degree of foreignA. ... perception, and providea foundation for further investigation on the involvement of cognitive processing for accent perception. These findings contributeto a richer understanding of the cognitive...