... perceptual clas-sification of dialect variation,” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana Uni-versity, Bloomington, Ind, USA, 2004.[9] M. Jilka, “The contribution of intonation to the perceptionof foreign accent,” ... accentvariation as well as 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 ... following section focuses on the classification con-fusability among the three UK accents (Cambridge, Belfast,and Cardiff).3.1.3. Task 1: UK accent classification confusabilityIn this section, the...