Better nonnative intonation scores through prosodic theory

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1813-1816

  Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonnative speech; Pronunciation; Prosody

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK TO STUDENTS; NONNATIVE SPEECH; PRONUNCIATION; PROSODY; SECOND LANGUAGE; SPEECH CORPORA; TONE LANGUAGES; TRAIN MODEL;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867222637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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