TY - CONF
T1 - The effects of the acoustic properties of second language vowel production on pronunciation evaluation
AU - Sheppard, Chris
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded in part by the grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), “Research on the Acquisition Process of Second Language Pronunciation”, no. 16520357 from JSPS
Publisher Copyright:
© ExLing 2008. All rights reserved.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This study examines the acoustic characteristics which native speakers use as cues when judging speech samples. 17 words produced by 98 (15 native speakers and 83 Japanese learners of English) were collected and evaluated. Following this, the first three formants for each vowel produced were measured and used as independent variables in stepwise multiple regression analyses to explain variance in the evaluations. The results demonstrated that the formants did explain variance in evaluation in many but not all of the words (r2 = 0.0 to .36).
AB - This study examines the acoustic characteristics which native speakers use as cues when judging speech samples. 17 words produced by 98 (15 native speakers and 83 Japanese learners of English) were collected and evaluated. Following this, the first three formants for each vowel produced were measured and used as independent variables in stepwise multiple regression analyses to explain variance in the evaluations. The results demonstrated that the formants did explain variance in evaluation in many but not all of the words (r2 = 0.0 to .36).
KW - evaluation
KW - formants
KW - pronunciation
KW - vowels
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M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85133173943
SP - 201
EP - 204
T2 - 2nd ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, ExLing 2008
Y2 - 25 August 2008 through 27 August 2008
ER -