Generating Non-Native Pronunciation Lexicons by Phonological Rules
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چکیده
This paper presents a new approach to model prototypical foreign-accented pronunciation variants on the phonetic transcription level using rewrite rules. For each native language (L1) and target language (L2) pair, a set of postlexical rules is designed to transform canonical phonetic dictionaries of L2 into adapted dictionaries for native L1 speakers. Potential applications are speech recognition and speech synthesis systems. A brief outline of the general framework is given, followed by an overview of the different rule types included in the system.
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