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[th] Pronunciation Errors for Chinese Learners of English

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Error Detection Me<strong>th</strong>odology<br />

• modified pronunciation dictionary:<br />

THICK TH IH1 K<br />

THICK S IH1 K<br />

• <strong>for</strong>ced alignment using open-source<br />

P2FA (Yuan and Liberman 2008)<br />

• <strong>for</strong>ced alignment output determines<br />

classification:<br />

– TH “correct”<br />

– S “error”<br />

8<br />

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