[th] Pronunciation Errors for Chinese Learners of English
[th] Pronunciation Errors for Chinese Learners of English
[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 />
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