نتایج جستجو برای: nativenonnative speakers

تعداد نتایج: 24035  

2008
Sally Chen Janice Fon

Previous studies have shown that even advanced L2 speakers align pitch accents differently from native speakers, and the only possibility for full attainment of L2 is through immersion. This study investigated two groups of five advanced L2 English speakers who first exposed to English through early immersion. Their alignment of prenuclear and nuclear accents was compared with that of the nativ...

2015
Daniel Hirst Hongwei Ding

In this study we analyse 18 metrics which were extracted fully automatically from the acoustic signal to describe the melodic characteristics of recordings of English read by L2 Chinese speakers from Shanghai. The metrics were compared to those of native English speakers recording the same material and also to comparable Chinese recordings read by the same speakers from Shanghai and also by oth...

2014
Juan Carlos Almagro Gary L Gilliland Felix Breden Jamie K Scott Devin Sok Matthias Pauthner Janice M Reichert Gustavo Helguera Raiees Andrabi Robert Mabry Mathieu Bléry James E Voss Juha Laurén Lubna Abuqayyas Stefan Barghorn Eshel Ben-Jacob James E Crowe James S Huston Stephen Albert Johnston Eric Krauland Fridtjof Lund-Johansen Wayne A Marasco Paul WHI Parren Kai Y Xu

note: The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of their respective employers. Speakers who wrote a summary of their own presentation are listed in the header for the relevant session. The majority of the other summaries in this report were based on PDFs of the presentations provided by speakers or on post-meeting input from the speakers. The a...

2012
Rasmus Dall Christophe Veaux Junichi Yamagishi Simon King

This paper describes a method for speaker clustering, with the application of building average voice models for speakeradaptive HMM-based speech synthesis that are a good basis for adapting to specific target speakers. Our main hypothesis is that using perceptually similar speakers to build the average voice model will be better than use unselected speakers, even if the amount of data available...

2017
Hai Hu Yiwen Zhang

He and Rao (2013) reported a raising phenomenon of /a/ in /Xan/ (X being a consonant or a vowel) in Chengdu dialect of Mandarin, i.e. /a/ is realized as [ɛ] for young speakers but [æ] for older speakers, but they offered no acoustic analysis. We designed an acoustic study that examined the realization of /Xan/ in speakers of different age (old vs. young) and gender (male vs. female) groups, whe...

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