Relevant Acoustic Phonetics Of L2 English
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Relevant Acoustic Phonetics Of L2 English
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Author : Ettien Koffi
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2021-04-20
Relevant Acoustic Phonetics Of L2 English written by Ettien Koffi and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a psychoacoustic methodology for doing so. Another physicist, von Bekesy, demonstrated clinically that Fletcher’s theory of Critical Bands was anchored in anatomical and auditory reality. Fletcher’s and Bekesy’s approach to intelligibility has revolutionized contemporary understanding of the processes involved in encoding and decoding speech signals. Their insights are applied in this book to account for the intelligibility of the pronunciation of 67 non-native speakers from the following language backgrounds –10 Arabic, 10 Japanese, 10 Korean, 10 Mandarin, 11 Serbian and Croatian "the Slavic Group," 6 Somali, and 10 Spanish speakers who read the Speech Accent Archive elicitation paragraph. Their pronunciation is analyzed instrumentally and compared and contrasted with that of 10 native speakers of General American English (GAE) who read the same paragraph. The data-driven intelligibility analyses proposed in this book help answer the following questions: Can L2 speakers of English whose native language lacks a segment/segments or a suprasegment/ suprasegments manage to produce it/them intelligibly? If they cannot, what segments or suprasegments do they use to substitute for it/them? Do the compensatory strategies used interfere with intelligibility? The findings reported in this book are based on nearly 12,000 measured speech tokens produced by all the participants. This includes some 2,000 vowels, more than 500 stop consonants, over 3,000 fricatives, nearly 1,200 nasals, about 1,500 approximants, a over 1,200 syllables onsets, as many as 800 syllable codas, more than 1,600 measurement of F0/pitch, and duration measurements of no fewer than 539 disyllabic words. These measurements are in keeping with Baken and Orlikoff (2000:3) and in accordance with widely accepted Just Noticeable Difference thresholds, and relative functional load calculations provided by Catforda (1987).
Relevant Acoustic Phonetics Of L2 English
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Author : Ettien N'da Koffi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-20
Relevant Acoustic Phonetics Of L2 English written by Ettien N'da Koffi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-20 with English language categories.
"This book applies four relevant concepts in acoustic phonetics and proposes a new approach for assessing the intelligibility of second language pronunciation instrumentally. First, the acoustic phonetic features of L1 and L2 are extracted, compared, and contrasted. Secondly, the acoustic distances between said features are calculated to determine whether or not internal or external masking occurs. Thirdly, well-established and scientifically proven Just Noticeable Difference (JND) thresholds are used to assess degrees of masking. Fourthly, relative functional load (RFL) calculations help to estimate the severity of unintelligibility or lack thereof"--
L2 Phonology Meets L2 Pronunciation
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Author : John Archibald
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2022-01-24
L2 Phonology Meets L2 Pronunciation written by John Archibald and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-24 with Science categories.
Speech Perception And Production In L2
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Author : Elena Kkese
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Speech Perception And Production In L2 written by Elena Kkese and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is concerned with studying speech perception and production in an L2. It deals with segments, syllables, and features above syllable level (the suprasegmental level). The volume brings together careful theoretical and empirical research conducted in different countries, including the United States of America, Greece, Northern Cyprus, Canada, the Republic of Cyprus, Israel, and Spain.
Speech Rhythm In Learner And Second Language Varieties Of English
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Author : Robert Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Speech Rhythm In Learner And Second Language Varieties Of English written by Robert Fuchs and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles). It contributes to a better understanding of speech rhythm, which has long been recognised as an important supra-segmental category of speech, focusing on its relevance in World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition and learner varieties of English, as well as the sociolinguistic and perceptual significance of this phonological variable.
The Sounds Of English
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Author : Henry Sweet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
The Sounds Of English written by Henry Sweet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with English language categories.
A Practical Introduction To English Phonology 2nd Edition
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Author : Barry Pennock-Speck
language : en
Publisher: Universitat de València
Release Date : 2020-04-29
A Practical Introduction To English Phonology 2nd Edition written by Barry Pennock-Speck and has been published by Universitat de València this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In its second edition, this book offers a practical introduction to the phonology of English, dealing with topics such as articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics, the phonological system of English, English vowels, diphthongs and consonants or speech and prosody. Similarly, the volume includes a glossary of specific terminology, and all chapters present activities to practice what has been learned about the topic, as well as a quiz to test the knowledge acquired. Designed to be used on its own if necessary, this volume provides a wide range of online activities at anglotic.blogs.uv.es, designed specifically for this volume, but could be used as supplementary material for learning English.
Second Language Speech
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Author : Allan James
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-03
Second Language Speech written by Allan James and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
The Phonemes Of English
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Author : A. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Phonemes Of English written by A. Cohen and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Foreign Language Study categories.
I gladly take this opportunity to convey my heartfelt thanks to those who have guided me on my way as an undergraduate and who have enabled me through their teachings and friendly advice to proceed to preparing for this doctorate thesis. I should like first of all to thank Prof. C. L. Wrenn, M. A., now of Pembroke College, Oxford, who has always been extremely helpful to me and who was generous enough to admit me to the Honours English Course at King's College, University of London. After moving to Oxford he still found time to show interest in my progress and on more than one occasion helped me with his wise counsels. I am also extremely grateful to his successor at King's College, Prof. G .. Bullough, M. A., who likewhise helped me whenever he could. I feel greatly indebted to Prof. D. Jones, M. A., Dr. Phil., who at the time was Professor of Phonetics at University College, London, and from whose lectures and methods of expression I greatly benefited. I am particularly thankful for the kindness shown to me by the staffs of the English department of King's College and of the Phonetics department of University College for the excellent tuition I received from them and for making me feel completely at home among my English fellow students. I am happy to acknowledge the generosity with which Prof. Dr. P. N. U.
Acoustic Phonetics
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Author : Kenneth N. Stevens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Acoustic Phonetics written by Kenneth N. Stevens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.