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An acoustic characterisation of English vowels produced by American , Dutch , Chinese and Hungarian speakers
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Incent |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | This is a comparative study of ten monophthongs of English pronounced in an /hVd/ environment by Chinese, Dutch, Hungarian, and American native speakers. Pronunciation problems were predicted by comparing traditional auditory vowel diagrams of source and target languages. Vowel duration and the resonance frequencies F1 (close-open) and F2 (front-back) were measured. Human vowel recognition was simulated by Linear Discriminant Analysis by training the algorithm with the vowel tokens produced by each of the four groups of speakers in turn and testing the model with the vowels of all four groups. The vowels of Chinese (66%) and Hungarian (59%) speakers are correctly identified less often by the American native model than the vowels of the Dutch speakers (77%). The native vowels were identified best (92%). Vowel identification was better overall when training and test languages were the same, which can be seen as a computer simulation of the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://alkalmazottnyelvtudomany.hu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Heuven.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
