A model of pronunciation of words in discourse context has been induced from the annotation of a spoken language corpus. The information included in the annotation is a set of variables hypothesised to be important for the pronunciation of words in discourse context. The annotation is connected to segmentally defined units on tiers corresponding to linguistically relevant units: the discourse, ...

Objective pronunciation assessment plays a very important role in the Mandarin Proficiency Test. But it still has a long way to go before it reaches the level of success. In this paper, the novel Mandarin objective pronunciation assessment pronunciation of is proposed. The standard of Mandarin pronunciation is divided into six levels. The mandarin pronunciation is divided into consonant, vowel ...

This study aims to examine the pronunciation that is implied by strength of meaning arguments. The research method used library method. data collection observation and documentation. analysis technique content analysis. To maintain accuracy assessment prevent misinformation in analysis, inter-library checks re-reading literature, as well attention supervisor's comments, are carried out. results...

Over the last few years, the realm of foreign language learning has witnessed an abundance of research concerning the effectiveness of corrective feedback on the acquisition of grammatical features, with the study of other target language subsystems, such as pronunciation, being few and far between. In order to bridge this gap, the present study intended to investigate and compare the immediate...

This paper aims to present an analysis of English pronunciation variations using the TIMIT corpus of American English. The manually annotated data are analyzed by comparing the pronunciation variants to their canonical pronunciations which are defined by using the CMU Pronunciation Dictionary. Vowels and consonants are separately analyzed with respect to substitution, deletion and insertion. Th...

Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is reaching an up most position in the pedagogical field of English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL). The present study was carried out to study the effect of using phonetic websites on Iranian EFL students’ pronunciation and knowledge of phonemic symbols. Participants of the study included 30 EFL female pre-intermediate students studyin...

In the early 1990s, the availability of the TIMIT read-speech phonetically transcribed corpus led to work at AT&T on the automatic inference of pronunciation variation. This work, brie ̄y summarized here, used stochastic decision trees trained on phonetic and linguistic features, and was applied to the DARPA North American Business News readspeech ASR task. More recently, the ICSI spontaneous-sp...