Loppez-Soto and Berrara-Pardo (2007) studied accent perceptions of Spanish ELF learners in
three different accents of English, namely; General American, Received Pronunciation of British
and found that 60% of the students found BrE to be “more correct” than AmE. Kovacs and
Racsmany (2008) studied the effect of L1 phonetics and phonology on word perception and
repetition. They designed an experiment in which subjects were asked to repeat non-word sounds
and divided non-words into four categories:
1) high probability L1 sounding non-words,
2) low probability L1 sounding non-words
3) non-words containing illegal L1 phoneme sequence
4) non-words containing non L1 sound segments.