Phonetic experiment web application

Abstract

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.