Comprehensibility and prosody ratings for pronunciation software development

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Comprehensibility and prosody ratings for pronunciation software development

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Victoria University of Wellington

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In the context of a project developing software for pronunciation practice and feedback for Mandarin-speaking learners of English, a key issue is how to decide which features of pronunciation to focus on in giving feedback. We used naïve and experienced native speaker ratings of comprehensibility and nativeness to establish the key features affecting comprehensibility of the utterances of a group of Chinese learners of English. Native speaker raters assessed the comprehensibility of recorded ...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Journal article

Date created

2009

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Paul Warren / Irina Elgort / D Crabbe

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https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Comprehensibility_and_prosody_ratings_for_pron...

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Other education not elsewhere classified / teaching of language / technology and media / prosody / computer software development / teaching of pronunciation / English language teaching / Chinese languages / speakers / Social Sciences / Education & Educational Research / Linguistics / AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION / ND-LANGUAGE LEARNERS / SYLLABLE STRUCTURE / FOREIGN ACCENT / ENGLISH / INTELLIGIBILITY / SPEAKERS / STRESS / SUPRASEGMENTALS / RELIABILITY / Language, Communication and Culture / Languages & Linguistics / Education

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