Perceptual differentiation modeling explains phoneme mispronunciation by non-native speakers

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5704-5707

  Koniaris, Christos ^a   Engwall, Olov ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

auditory model; distortion measure; perceptual differentiation ratio; phoneme; second language learning

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY MODELS; DISTORTION MEASURE; PERCEPTUAL DIFFERENTIATION RATIO; PHONEME; SECOND LANGUAGE;

GEOMETRY; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80051656916     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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