... of accent perception, and providea foundation for further investigation on the involvement of cognitive processing for accent perception. These findings contributeto a richer understanding of ... 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 foreign ... be the case that the artic-ulatory variability of accents affects listener comprehension, and in turn, comprehensibility of the speech impacts accent perception. 4. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONThe...