摘要：This study investigated the intelligibility of English verbs in the simple past inserted insentences. The verbs were produced by two adult native speakers of English and six adult nonnativespeakers, and they were transcribed by 13 adult Brazilian listeners. Results indicated that the intelligibilityrate of regular verbs was similar to the irregular ones, and that the intelligibility of verbs produced by BPtalkers was similar to the Spanish talkers. The intelligibility rate of German talkers, on the other hand, waslower than the intelligibility of BP and Spanish talkers but higher than the intelligibility of verbs producedby native speakers.
