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Experiments on Non native Speech Assessment and its Consistency
... SpeechRater T M , developed by Educational Test- ing Service (ETS) can be considered as a lead- ing strand of research into automated scoring of non-native speech (Xi et al., 2008; Chen et al., 2018). Since ...
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Detecting Structural Events for Assessing Non Native Speech
... spontaneous speech, are important components of human speaking and have been used to measure language devel- ...automated speech assessment ...spontaneous speech, we investigated the de- tection of ...
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Dual supervised learning for non-native speech recognition
... non-native speech. The main rea- son for this problem concerns the size of speech datasets for a certain ...of speech signal characteristics in one particular ...a speech recognition ...
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Towards Using Structural Events To Assess Non native Speech
... non-native speech, to compute features for measuring speaking ...of speech transcriptions are found to predict holistic scores measuring speaking ...on speech word strings provide a potential ...
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Using an Ontology for Improved Automated Content Scoring of Spontaneous Non Native Speech
... Before feature computation, some preprocessing is conducted on the speech transcripts. For each prompt, we group its training set into four groups according to their score levels (“score-level docu- ments”). Then ...
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Non-native Accent and the Realization of Request Speech Act
... and native speakers of American English to present the same statements about Ants don’t sleep, and asked native speakers of English listen to them and then determine the degree of credibility which was ...
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Non Native Users in the Let’s Go!! Spoken Dialogue System: Dealing with Linguistic Mismatch
... non- native data” to the ...on native speech, to its September 2003 version, which contains modifications based on the non-native data col- lected during the ...the native set and by ...
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Automatic localization and diagnosis of pronunciation errors for second-language learners of English
... non–native speech anno- tated at the word and phone ...English speech from non–native (German and Italian) in- termediate–level adult learners of ...
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Securitizing British India: A New Framework of Analysis for the First Anglo Afghan War
... prefer native speech over non-native speech, presenting the native- speaker dialog after both of the non-native dialogs decreases the likelihood of the native conversation ...
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Optimizing Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Proficient Non-Native Speakers
... For the acoustic models we decided to start with training the acoustic models on Dutch native speech. Next, we used read speech of language learners (DL2 speech) to retrain the acoustic models ...
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Improved pronunciation features for construct driven assessment of non native spontaneous speech
... non-native speech acoustic properties and then forced-align the recognition results with a reference acoustic model reflecting native and near-native speech ...to speech ...
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An Approach to Measure Pronunciation Similarity in Second Language Learning Using Radial Basis Function Kernel
... the native perception to evaluate non-native pronunciations based on acoustic and auditory processing of the speech ...distinguish speech sounds of various ...between speech sounds ...
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Toward Automated Content Feedback Generation for Non-native Spontaneous Speech
... non-native speech includes frequent grammatical or vocabulary usage errors, and this results in even wider variations in the realization of Key Points in their ...
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Automatic pronunciation assessment for language learners with acoustic phonetic features
... errors arise from (1) the absence of certain L2 phones in the L1 leading to phone substitutions by available similar phones, and (2) phonotactic constraints of L1 leading to improper usage of phones in certain ...
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The IFCASL Corpus of French and German Non native and Native Read Speech
... The IFCASL corpus is a French-German bilingual phonetic learner corpus designed, recorded and annotated in a project on individualized feedback in computer-assisted spoken language learning. The motivation for setting up ...
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Towards Automatic Scoring of Non Native Spontaneous Speech
... the speech recognizer, we split the full data (927 re- cordings) into a training (596) and a test set (331 ...non-native speech from speakers at different levels of proficiency which is more ...
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Eger, Nikola Anna (2019): The role of explicit knowledge and experience with accent in the acquisition of second language sounds. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
... Foreign-accented speech usually deviates from how native speakers of the target language would typically speak, and is therefore often more difficult to understand than native productions, for ...
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Native and Non-native English Teachers’ Rating Criteria and Variation in the Assessment of L2 Pragmatic Production: The Speech Act of Compliment
... the native and non- native raters’ ...among native speakers are accompanied with a NES mark next to them and those present among non-native raters, have a NNES ...
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Native and Non-native Teachers’ Pragmatic Criteria for Rating Request Speech Act: The Case of American and Iranian EFL Teachers
... of speech act studies in pragmatics is ...a speech act, various linguistic recourses that can be employed to produce a speech act are examples of pragmalinguistic understanding, while considering ...
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The Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit as bias toward native-language phonology
... (2007). Native speakers have a vast knowledge of the statistical regularities at all linguistic levels (sounds, syllables, morphemes, words, and sentences) and skillfully use any redundancy that may exist in the ...
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