计算机辅助发音,面向中国英语学习者的计算机辅助发音系统.PDF

面向中国英语学习者的计算机辅助发音系统

Vol. 3 No.2 / Feb. 2009

Developing a Computer-Aided Pronunciation System

for Chinese-Speaking Learners of English

面向中国英语学习者的计算机辅助发音系统

Helen MENG, Alissa HARRISON and Lan WANG

ABSTRACT In this paper, we summarize the predicted phonetic confusions from our comparative analysis of Cantonese

and English. Then, we describe the context-sensitive rules used to generate variants in the extended pronunciation

lexicon. Finally we present some experimental results using learner data from our CU-CHLOE corpus to demonstrate

the accuracy of our system.

KEYWORDS computer-aided pronunciation; comparative analysis; context-sensitive rules

摘?要? 本文通过对比分析粤语和英语，总结了可预测的音素混淆规则。同时，描述了使用上下文相关的规则来产生扩展

发音词典里的各种情况。最后，使用学习者数据库CU-CHLOE进行实验，通过实验结果证实了本系统的准确性。

关键词? 计算机辅助发音训练；比较分析；上下文相关规则

I Introduction

using learner data from our CU-CHLOE corpus to

demonstrate the accuracy of our system.

n this paper we summarize our work in developing a

Icomputer-aided pronunciation training (CAPT) system 2 Comparative Analysis

for Chinese-speaking learners of English. Our system is

grounded in the theory of language transfer: knowledge

of the first language (L1) sound system is carried over his section is an abbreviated summary of our

to the second language (L2). From a comparative Tcomparative analysis between Cantonese and

phonological analysis of Chinese (Cantonese) and English. A more detailed description can be found in [4]

English, we develop a set of predicted phonetic and empirical validation of these predicted confusions is

confusions. These confusions – formulated as conte