Intonation-based classification of language proficiency using FDA

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 795-799

  Jokisch, Oliver ^a   Langenberg, Tristan ^a   Pintér, Gábor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional data analysis; L2 prosody; Proficiency

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA HANDLING; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

BASELINE PROCESSING; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS; L2 PROSODY; LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROFICIENCY; STATISTICALLY ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904668343     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.21437/speechprosody.2014-147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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