Testing suprasegmental english through parroting

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tepperman, Joseph ^a   Stanley, Theban ^a   Hacioglu, Kadri ^a   Pellom, Bryan ^a  

^a Rosetta Stone Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonnative speech; Pronunciation evaluation; Second language acquisition; Suprasegmental features

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPUTER ASSISTED; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; PRONUNCIATION EVALUATIONS; SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SUPRASEGMENTAL FEATURES; TEMPLATE-BASED METHOD;

SPEECH;

EID: 85089090007     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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