Ettien Koffi

Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English (eBook, ePUB)

Focus on Intelligibility

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book applies four relevant concepts in acoustic phonetics and proposes a new approach for assessing the intelligibility of second language pronunciation instrumentally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000340099
• Artikelnr.: 60770760

Autorenporträt

Ettien Koffi, Ph.D. linguistics, teaches at Saint Cloud State University, Minnesota. He is the author of four books and author/co-author of several dozen articles on acoustic phonetics, phonology, language planning and policy, emergent orthographies, syntax, and translation. His acoustic phonetic research is synergetic, encompassing L2 acoustic phonetics of English (Speech Intelligibility from the perspectives of the Critical Band Theory), sociophonetics of Central Minnesota English, general acoustic phonetics of Anyi (a West African language), acoustic phonetic feature extraction for application in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS), and voice biometrics for speaker verification. He can be reached at [e-mail].

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Review and Preview of Essential Concepts. Pictorial Definitions of
Acoustic Phonetic Concepts. Preliminary Remarks on the Instrumental
Assessment of Intelligibility. The Acoustic Vowel Space of L2 English. The
Acoustic Correlates of Stops in L2 English. The Acoustic Correlates of
Fricatives in L2 English. The Acoustic Correlates of Nasals in L2 English.
The Acoustic Correlates of Approximants in L2 English. The Acoustic
Correlates of Complex Onset and Coda Clusters in L2 English. The Acoustic
Correlates of Complex Onset and Coda Clusters in L2 English. References.
Index.