Essays about: "English phonetic"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words English phonetic.

1. 1. Mandarin L1 speakers’ difficulty with phonetic perception in English as an L2

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Ida Gisslén; [2021]
   Keywords : Speech Perception; Phonemes; Phonetic Perception; HVPT; ORDT;

   Abstract : The study focuses on three research questions. The first question addresses whether it is possible to improve phonetic perception in English as an L2 for Chinese primary school children speaking Mandarin as an L1, through the didactic methods High Variability Phonetic Training and Onset Rhyme Detection Test. READ MORE

3. 2. Grapheme-to-phoneme transcription of English words in Icelandic text

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Bjarki Ármannsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Foreign word grapheme-to-phoneme transcription; TTS; text-to-speech; Icelandic; Icelandic phonology; g2p; foreign word g2p;

   Abstract : Foreign words, such as names, locations or sometimes entire phrases, are a problem for any system that is meant to convert graphemes to phonemes (g2p; i.e.converting written text into phonetic transcription). READ MORE

4. 3. Spelling Normalization of English Student Writings

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Yuchan HONG; [2018]
   Keywords : spelling normalization; English student writings; phonetic similarity comparison; Levenshtein edit distance; character-based statistical machine translation; character-based neural machine translation;

   Abstract : Spelling normalization is the task to normalize non-standard words into standard words in texts, resulting in a decrease in out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in texts for natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as information retrieval, machine translation, and opinion mining, improving the performance of various NLP applications on normalized texts. In this thesis, we explore different methods for spelling normalization of English student writings including traditional Levenshtein edit distance comparison, phonetic similarity comparison, character-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and character-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods. READ MORE

5. 4. A Sociophonetic Analysis of the Role of Cultural Identification in L2 English Speech Production

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jaana Kalev; [2018]
   Keywords : Rhoticity; sociophonetics; social network theory; study abroad; cultural identification.;

   Abstract : Research in the relationship between second language (L2) production and study abroad has largely focused on establishing a connection between exchange studies and the success rate of second language acquisition. This Bachelor's thesis investigates L2 production by studying L2 English speakers' attitudes regarding the target language culture in relation to their production of a regionally typical phoneme by formulating the research question “How does cultural identification with the target language environment influence L2 phonetic production in the L1 language community?” in hopes of contributing to sociophonetic studies. READ MORE

6. 5. Turkish-Swedish Bilingual Third Language English High-Front Vowel Category Formation

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Martin Ekelund; [2017]
   Keywords : Second language acquisition; third language acquisition; bilingualism; multilingualism; phonology; phonetics; English; Swedish; Turkish; acoustic measurements;

   Abstract : This study explores the possibilities of phonetic category formation in early bilingual Turkish-Swedish learners of English. Specifically, the high-front unrounded vowels across the three languages Turkish, Swedish and English are investigated. READ MORE