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Cox, Ethan Andrew. "Second language perception of accented speech." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282887.

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The present study addresses a core issue in the study of speech perception, the question of how stable phonological representations are accessed from an inherently variable speech signal. In particular, the research investigates the perception of accented English speech by native and non-native listeners. It is known from previous research that foreign-accented speech is harder for native listeners to process than native-accented speech. The reason for this lies in not only qualities of the input (deviation from native production norms, for example) but also in qualities of the listener. Speci

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Brown, Cynthia A. 1967. "Acquisition of segmental structure : consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34704.

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Through an investigation of the acquisition of feature geometric representations in first and second language acquisition, this dissertation demonstrates how the Feature Geometry theory contained in Universal Grammar actively guides and constrains the acquisition of segmental representations by children. In addition, it demonstrates how the mature feature geometry in a speaker's mental grammar restricts the range of nonnative phonemic contrasts that he or she will be sensitive to in the input and, hence, able to acquire as an L2 learner.<br>Three related areas of research are explored and inte

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Brown, Cynthia A. "Acquisition of segmental structure, consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ44371.pdf.

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Radhakrishnan, Sreedivya. "Perception of synthetic vowels by monolingual and bilingual Malayalam speakers." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1258953613.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2009.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 17, 2010). Advisor: John Hawks. Keywords: Speech perception; Vowels; Malayalam; Second Language. Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-216).

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Préfontaine, Yvonne Marie. "Fluency in French : a psycholinguistic study of second language speech production and perception." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658086.

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This thesis presents the results of a mixed methods study examining L2 utterance and perceived fluency in French under three different task conditions, an area in which little empirical research has been conducted from a psycholinguistic perspective. It investigated the following speech production and perception issues: (1) automated utterance fluency measures and their relationship to perceived task difficulty, (2) participants' and raters' perceptions of fluency and their link to utterance fluency measures and task complexity, and (3) speech characteristics that most influenced judgments of

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Leather, Jonathan Haworth. "Speech pattern elements in second language acquisition : perception and production of Chinese tonal contrasts." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295152.

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Doty, Astrid Zerla. "The effects first language use phonological difficulty perception foreign accented speech [sic]." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001198.

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Harrison, Margaret Elizabeth. "Audiovisual Integration in Native and Non-native Speech Perception." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461330622.

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Erdener, Vahit Doğu. "The effect of auditory, visual and orthographic information on second language acquisition /." View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030408.114825/index.html.

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Thesis (MA (Hons)) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002.<br>"A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts (Honours), MARCS Auditory Laboratories & School of Psychology, University of Western Sydney, May 2002" Bibliography : leaves 83-93.

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Kato, Kazue. "Second language (L2) segmental speech learning : perception and production of L2 English by Japanese native speakers." Thesis, University of Essex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413228.

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Golestani, Narly A. "Phonetic learning abilities : behavioral, neural functional, and neural anatomical correlates." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38196.

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The studies included in this thesis had as aim to elucidate how individual differences in phonetic learning abilities might be related to differences in more general, psychoacoustic learning abilities, and in how they might be related to differences in brain function and brain morphology.<br>We tested and trained English speaking volunteers to perceive the Hindi dental-retroflex phonetic contrast. We found evidence suggesting that the ability to accurately perceive "difficult" non-native contrasts is not permanently lost during development. We also tested and trained subjects to perceive the d

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DeMasi, Teresa. "Clear speech effects for vowels produced by monolingual and bilingual talkers." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002110.

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Tessel, Carol A. "Neurophysiological indices of the effect of cognates on vowel perception in late Spanish-English bilinguals." Thesis, City University of New York, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3589780.

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<p> The field of research in bilingualism and second language (L2) acquisition has yielded overwhelming evidence that acquiring a second language later in life will result in less accurate production and perception of consonants and vowels in the second language. These effects, in part, are a result of interference from the already formed phonetic categories shaped by early exposure to the L1 (Iverson, 2007). Phonetic categories from the L2 will, at least initially, be mapped onto phonetic categories from the L1 (Flege, 1995). Shared storage of similar lexical items from L1 and L2 may also t

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Barrientos, Contreras Fernanda. "Perceptual representations in Interlanguage Phonology : subcategorial learning in late-learners with a smaller vowel inventory." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/perceptual-representations-in-interlanguage-phonology-subcategorial-learning-in-latelearners-with-a-smaller-vowel-inventory(ff039de6-95b8-47ec-a23e-bb78cea7c549).html.

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In this thesis I explore the phonological nature of newly acquired perceptual representations by highly proficient late-learners of English whose L1 is Spanish, specifically in the case where two different L2 sounds are being initially mapped onto the same L1 category. I claim that these perceptual representations are not phonemic; rather, what these learners acquire are phonetic representations that can be discriminable under certain conditions in a manner similar to that of native speakers, but that are nevertheless identified as tokens of the same L1 category. Since speech perception is a c

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Shaeffer, Alexandra Courtney. "Complaints in L2 French: perception and production across social contexts." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6500.

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Complaining happens in all cultures, and offers a unique insight into the values, taboos, and communicative practices of a given society. The ways in which complaining is viewed and performed vary drastically not only cross-culturally, but across smaller communal groups and between individuals, too. This dissertation approaches complaining from a multilateral perspective to investigate how individuals in three different language groups – monolingual French speakers, monolingual English speakers, and native English speakers enrolled in upper-division university French courses – perceive and pro

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Wong, Wai-Lap. "A longitudinal twin study of Chinese children learning to read English as a second language." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b9a5fc85-e01e-4042-9577-273573f0c27b.

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This thesis investigated reading and related skills in Chinese children learning English as a second language (ESL) in 279 Chinese twin pairs aged from 3 to 11 years. Children were tested twice, a year apart, with measures of visual word recognition, receptive vocabulary, phonological awareness, phonological memory and speech perception in both Chinese and English and Chinese tone awareness. The thesis was divided into two sections with the first section exploring the phenotypic relationships and the second section estimating the genetic and environmental influences. In the first section, the

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Hubbard, Amy L. "Giving speech a hand fMRI of co-speech beat gesture processing in adult native English speakers, Japanese English as a second language speakers, typically-developing children, and children with autism spectrum disorder /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1779835541&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hansen, Rachel E. "The Effects of Second Language Status on the Comprehension and Perception of Direct and Indirect Speech in Written Teacher Feedback." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2500.pdf.

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Weil, Shawn Aaron. "The impact of perceptual dissimilarity on the perception of foreign accented speech." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1068481600.

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Desmeules-Trudel, Félix. "Spoken Word Recognition in Native and Second Language Canadian French: Phonetic Detail and Representation of Vowel Nasalization." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37958.

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Research has shown that fine-grained consonantal phonetic information can be gradiently integrated during spoken word recognition in the L1. However, the way listeners categorize vocalic phonetic information has not been investigated as thoroughly. Furthermore, second language (L2) listeners’ processing of fine-grained information is not as well known as L1 processing. L1 Canadian French (CF) listeners and L2 listeners (native English) were tested in an eye tracking paradigm with words containing partially nasalized (CVN) and fully nasal (CṼ) vowels. Stimuli were designed to have variable na

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Yang, Bei. "A model of Mandarin tone categories--a study of perception and production." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/764.

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The current study lays the groundwork for a model of Mandarin tones based on both native speakers' and non-native speakers' perception and production. It demonstrates that there is variability in non-native speakers' tone productions and that there are differences in the perceptual boundaries in native speakers and non-native speakers. There are four experiments in this study. Experiment 1 utilizes native speakers' production data from a published speech database to explore the features of tone production by native speakers. Inter-speaker normalization is used to analyze the data. Experiment 2

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Goss, Seth Joshua. "The Effects of Internal and Experience-Based Factors on the Perception of Lexical Pitch Accent by Native and Nonnative Japanese Listeners." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429657750.

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Wottawa, Jane. "Production & Perception in a second language the case of French learners of German : evidence from large speech corpora, electroencephalography, and teaching." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA141.

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Ce projet de recherche vise à étudier la production et la perception de la parole chez les apprenants francophones de l’allemand. Un corpus de parole de 7 heures correspondant à trois tâches (imitation, lecture, description) a été enregistré. Il comprend des germanophones natifs et des apprenants francophones. Nous avons analysée les productions des segments intéressants d'après le cadre du SLM. Une étude de perception en EEG utilisant [h-ʔ], [ʃ-ç] et les voyelles courtes et longues a été réalisée sur des germanophones natifs et des apprenants francophones. Enfin, l'impact de l'enseignement su

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Smeds, Helena. "Blindness and Second Language Acquisition : Studies of Cognitive Advantages in Blind L1 and L2 speakers." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-114199.

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The aim of this study is to investigate whether blind individuals display cognitive advantages over sighted individuals with regard to second language acquisition. Previous studies from neuropsychology have indicated that this is the case. It has been found that blind L1 speakers can compensate for loss of vision by developing better perceptual and cognitive skills compared to sighted individuals, skills that are highly relevant to language acquisition. These studies do not, however, investigate blind L2 speakers, for whom it is not clear whether these advantages are also found. In all, 80 ad

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Wisniewska, Natalia. "Pronunciation learning through captioned videos: Gains in L2 speech perception and production." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671457.

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This doctoral dissertation examines the benefits of extended exposure to multimodal input through captioned videos for second language pronunciation development. It investigates the effects of TV viewing on both L2 speech processing and perceptual and productive accuracy in learners’ L2 phonology. It also analyses learners' eye-movements while watching captioned videos in order to relate the amount of on-screen text processing to pronunciation gains. Ninety Spanish/Catalan adult learners of English (EFL) were tested on speech processing skills (segmentation, speed of lexical access, and senten

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Kim, Sasha S. Kim. "Perception of Regional Dialects in 2-Talker Masking Speech by Korean-English Bilinguals." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531861417828363.

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Koniaris, Christos. "Perceptually motivated speech recognition and mispronunciation detection." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Tal-kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-102321.

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This doctoral thesis is the result of a research effort performed in two fields of speech technology, i.e., speech recognition and mispronunciation detection. Although the two areas are clearly distinguishable, the proposed approaches share a common hypothesis based on psychoacoustic processing of speech signals. The conjecture implies that the human auditory periphery provides a relatively good separation of different sound classes. Hence, it is possible to use recent findings from psychoacoustic perception together with mathematical and computational tools to model the auditory sensitivities

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Sakamoto, Emi. "Investigation of factors behind foreign accent in the L2 acquisition of Japanese lexical pitch accent by adult English speakers." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5692.

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The productions of adult second language (L2) learners are often detected as having a foreign accent by native speakers of the target language. However, there is no clear answer for what kind of problems contribute to L2 learners’ foreign accent. This thesis aims to investigate potential factors behind foreign accent. We intend to achieve this goal by examining cross-linguistic empirical evidence of the L2 acquisition of Japanese lexical pitch accent by English learners. L2 prosody has been found to significantly influence native speakers’ auditory impression of foreign accent. L2 prosody also

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Stölten, Katrin. "The Effects of Age of Onset on VOT in L2 Aquisition and L1 Attrition : A Study of the Speech Production and Perception of Advanced Spanish-Swedish Bilinguals." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94887.

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This thesis explores the role of age in second language (L2) acquisition and first language (L1) attrition. The focus is on Voice Onset Time (VOT) in the production and categorical perception of word-initial L1 and L2 stops in highly advanced L1 Spanish learners of L2 Swedish. Using as the point of departure a maturational constraints perspective and the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH), Study I examines the impact of age of onset (AO) of L2 acquisition on the production of L2 Swedish voiceless stops. The results show that there are AO effects even in the speech of highly advanced L2 learners

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Jevring, Cecilia. "I Perceive, Therefore I Produce? : A Study on the Perception and Production of Three English Consonantal Sounds by Swedish L2 learners." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118450.

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This study set out to investigate the relationship between perception and production of English / tʃ, dʒ/ and / ʒ / by native speakers of Swedish learning English in secondary school. The aim was to find out if Flege’s Speech Learning Model (SLM) (1995) and Major’s Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM) (2001) are suitable to describe young learners’ L2 phonological attainment. To test perception, an identification task containing Nonwords with target sounds in initial, medial, and final position was constructed and tested on 17 school students. Three speaking tasks were carried out to test the partic

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Melnik, Gerda Ana. "Issues in L2 phonological processing." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEE007/document.

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L’apprentissage d’une langue étrangère nécessite une quantité considérable de temps et d’efforts. Les apprenants doivent faire face à de nombreux défis dans cet apprentissage, dont le traitement des sons qui n'existent pas dans leur langue maternelle. La différence entre les propriétés de la langue maternelle et de la langue étrangère entraîne des distorsions dans la perception et un accent dans la production des sons non-natifs. De plus, ces difficultés persistent à tous les niveaux de traitement, car les problèmes de perception et de production d’un son influencent le traitement des mots con

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Hardman, Jocelyn Brooks. "The intelligibility of Chinese-accented English to international and American students at a U.S. university." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1276818520.

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Florencio, Hosana Alves. "A criação de alvos perceptivos em L2." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19648.

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Ghafarsamar, Reza. "Aspects of second language speech, a variationist perspective on second language acquisition." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ57041.pdf.

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Lukach, Melanie. "Speech production processing in the second language." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6779.

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The phenomenon of foreign accent has long been a topic of linguistic theory. Neufeld proposes that speech production, especially at the phonological level, is hampered by the use of (conscious or unconscious) knowledge that speakers have about the L2--metalinguistic knowledge. Those who begin acquiring an L2 after the age of five focus more on structural correctness than younger learners, and tend to use this metalinguistic knowledge more often. Thus even among balanced bilinguals, on an experiment designed to induce focus on form, older learners should perform more speech errors and dysfluenc

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Gautreau, Aurore. "Compréhension de la parole dans la parole : une approche inter-langues pour évaluer les interférences linguistiques durant la compréhension." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20124/document.

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Cette thèse s’est intéressée aux interférences linguistiques intervenant dans la situation de la parole dans la parole, en comparant l’effet de masque de masqueurs paroliers générés dans une langue intelligible pour les participants (français) à celui de masqueurs paroliers générés dans des langues non connues (gaélique irlandais et italien), sur l’identification de mots cibles français. Une tâche de décision lexicale à -5 dB nous a permis d’observer des résultats significativement différents entre les masqueurs paroliers générés dans les langues inconnues (irlandais et italien), avec les masq

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暁芸, 王., and Xiaoyun Wang. "Phoneme set design for second language speech recognition." Thesis, https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13044980/?lang=0, 2017. https://doors.doshisha.ac.jp/opac/opac_link/bibid/BB13044980/?lang=0.

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本論文は第二言語話者の発話を高精度で認識するための音素セットの構成方法に関する研究結果を述べている．本論文では，第二言語話者の発話をネイティブ話者の発話とは異なる音響特徴量の頻度分布を持つ情報源とみなし，これを表現する適切な音素セットを構築する手法を提案している．具体的には，対象とする第二言語と母語との調音位置や調音様式などの類似性に加え，同音異義語の発生による単語識別性能の低下を総合した基準に基づき，最適な音素セットを決定する．提案手法を日本人学生の英語発話の音声認識に適用し，種々の条件下で認識精度の向上を検証した．<br>This dissertation focuses on the problem caused by confused mispronunciation to improve the recognition performance of second language speech. A novel method considering integrated acoustic and linguistic features is proposed to derive a reduced phoneme set for L2 speech recognition. The customized phoneme set is created with a phon

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Chen, Ying. "Prosodic Realization of Focus in Second Language Speech: Effects of Language Experience." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18542.

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Prosodic focus is phonetically realized by increasing duration, F0 and intensity on the focused constituents in a sentence. In some languages, there is a concomitant compression of F0 and intensity after the focused item, referred to as post-focus compression (PFC). Southern Min is a tone language that does not have PFC, while Beijing Mandarin is a tone language that does. Like Mandarin, American English has PFC; unlike Mandarin, American English has lexical stress rather than lexical tone. The current dissertation investigated the phonetic realization of focus in second language Mandarin by S

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Wood, David. "Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29274.

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This thesis is an investigation of the role of formulaic language in second language (L2) speech fluency development, within a cognitive and information processing framework. Fluency has been studied and defined in terms of temporal variables of speech such as rate of speech, pause frequency and distribution, and the length of fluent runs between pauses. It has been suggested by several researchers that the key to fluency in spontaneous speech is mastery of a repertoire of formulaic language sequences, multiword strings processed mentally as single words (Schmidt, 1991; Towell, Hawkins, and Ba

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Peleias, Fabiola D'Agostini. "Produção e percepção da fricativa interdental surda por aprendizes brasileiros de língua inglesa." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14127.

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Nagao, Kyoko. "Cross-language study of age perception." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3232572.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Linguistics and the Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sciences, 2006.<br>"Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 10, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2962. Advisers: Kenneth de Jong; Diane Kewley-Port.

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Kropf, Corinne Ann. "Perception and analysis of Spanish accents in English speech." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1404.

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Birulés, Muntané Joan. "Language Factors Modulate Audiovisual Speech Perception. A Developmental Perspective." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670633.

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In most natural situations, adults look at the eyes of faces in seek of social information (Yarbus, 1967). However, when the auditory information becomes unclear (e.g. speech-in- noise) they switch their attention towards the mouth of a talking face and rely on the audiovisual redundant cues to help them process the speech signal (Barenholtz, Mavica, & Lewkowicz, 2016; Buchan, Paré, & Munhall, 2007; Lansing & McConkie, 2003; Vatikiotis- Bateson, Eigsti, Yano, & Munhall, 1998). Likewise, young infants are sensitive to the correspondence between acoustic and visual speech (Bahrick & Lickliter, 2

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Xu, Yushi Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Language technologies in speech-enabled second language learning games : from reading to dialogue." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75652.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244).<br>Second language learning has become an important societal need over the past decades. Given that the number of language teachers is far below demand, computer-aided language learning software is becoming a promising supplement to traditional classroom learning, as well as potentially enabling new opportunities for self-learning. The use of speech technologies is especially attractive

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Carbonell, Kathy M. "Individual Differences in Degraded Speech Perception." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604866.

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One of the lasting concerns in audiology is the unexplained individual differences in speech perception performance even for individuals with similar audiograms. One proposal is that there are cognitive/perceptual individual differences underlying this vulnerability and that these differences are present in normal hearing (NH) individuals but do not reveal themselves in studies that use clear speech produced in quiet (because of a ceiling effect). However, previous studies have failed to uncover cognitive/perceptual variables that explain much of the variance in NH performance on more challeng

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Patterson, Dianne Karen 1961. "Topics in acoustics, production and perception of psittacine speech." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282871.

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By examining psittacine speech (primarily from a Grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, named Alex) in a series of two acoustic studies, two articulatory studies and one perceptual study, this dissertation demonstrates that some aspects of human language are not unique to our species. The first two studies identify frequency, intensity and durational aspects of, respectively, Alex's vowels (/i,I,e,ε,æ,ɒ,ə,o,U,u/) and stop consonants (/p,b,t,d,k,g/) that either differ from or resemble their human counterparts (primarily I. M. Pepperberg). Our results indicate that Alex produces acoustically distinc

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Gildersleeve-Neumann, Christina Elke. "Constraints on infant speech acquisition a cross-language perspective /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3032398.

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Wu, Mian, and 吴冕. "Speech perception of English as a foreign language by Mandarin Chinese speakers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206725.

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Heimbauer, Lisa A. "Perception of Synthetic Speech by a Language-Trained Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_theses/57.

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Ability of human listeners to understand altered speech is argued as evidence of uniquely human processing abilities, but early auditory experience also may contribute to this capability. I tested the ability of Panzee, a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), reared and spoken to from infancy by humans, to recognize synthesized words. Training and testing was conducted with different sets of English words in natural, “harmonics-only” (resynthesized using only voiced components), or “noise-vocoded” (based on amplitude-modulated noise bands) forms, with Panzee choosing from “lexigram” s

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Lessing, Sara. "ComPron : Learning Pronunciation through Building Associations between Native Language and Second Language Speech Sounds." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Människa-datorinteraktion, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-414819.

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Current computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) tools are too focused on what technologies can do, rather than focusing on learner needs and pedagogy. They also lack an embodied perspective on learning. This thesis presents a Research through Design project exploring what kind of interactive design features can support second language learners’ pronunciation learning of segmental speech sounds with embodiment in mind. ComPron was designed: an open simulated prototype that supports learners in learning perception and production of new segmental speech sounds in a second language, by com

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