Accurate pronunciation is an important component of language ability and the main outward linguistic sign of whether someone is a native speaker of a language or not. An area of particular difficulty for Persian-speaking learners of English, which may cause 'foreign accent' or misunderstanding in speaking, is placement of stress on multi-syllable words. Game-based pronunciation teaching can be ...

We describe a pronunciation instruction system that dynamically generates CG animations to express the pronunciation from speech based on articulatory features. Specifically, the system displays the results of phoneme recognition and animation of the pronunciation movements of both the learner and teacher from their speech in order to show in what way the learner’s pronunciation is wrong. Learn...

Please cite this article in press as: Yap, M ory and Language (2009), doi:10.1016/j.jm The visual word recognition literature has been dominated by the study of monosyllabic words in factorial experiments, computational models, and megastudies. However, it is not yet clear whether the behavioral effects reported for monosyllabic words generalize reliably to multisyllabic words. Hierarchical reg...

Paul Warren, Irina Elgort, David Crabbe Victoria University of Wellington In the context of a project developing software for pronunciation practice and feedback for Mandarin-speaking learners of English, a key issue is how to decide which features of pronunciation to focus on in giving feedback. We used naïve and experienced native speaker ratings of comprehensibility and nativeness to establi...

Pronunciation, long on the periphery of applied linguistics research and pedagogy, continues to grow in importance because of its central roles in speech recognition, speech perception, and speaker identity. Pronunciation-related issues such as comprehensibility, accent, and the mutual intelligibility of varieties of world Englishes are central to many questions in applied linguistics. This cal...

This paper investigates how listeners process regular pronunciation variants, resulting from simple general reduction processes. Study 1 shows that when listeners are presented with new words, they store the pronunciation variants presented to them, whether these are unreduced or reduced. Listeners thus store information on word-specific pronunciation variation. Study 2 suggests that if partici...

This study aims to determine the forms of errors in Arabic pronunciation at An-Nur Tangkit Islamic Boarding School, Sungai Gelam Muaro Jambi phonological level, factors pronunciation. The type research used is qualitative research. Collecting data from this using methods observation, interviews, and documentation. results indicate that occur Pondok Pesantren are grouped into 2: 1. Phoneme chang...

In this work a number of novel techniques for improved treatment of spontaneous speech variabilities in large vocabulary automatic speech recognition are developed and evaluated on US English conversational speech and spontaneous medical dictations. Two main aspects of spontaneous speech modeling are addressed: The general handling of pronunciation variability and the individual and parallel tr...