Phonological modeling of mispronunciation gradations in L2 English speech of L1 Chinese learners

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7714-7718

  Wang, Hao ^a   Qian, Xiaojun ^a   Meng, Helen ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

CAPT; Crowdsourcing; Mispronunciation gradation

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

CAPT; COMPUTER-AIDED PRONUNCIATION TRAININGS; CORRECTIVE FEEDBACKS; CROWDSOURCING; HUMAN PERCEPTION; MISPRONUNCIATION GRADATION; PHONOLOGICAL MODELING; WORD PRONUNCIATION;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84905223885     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6855101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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