TY - GEN
T1 - Fluency and L1 phonology interference on L2 English analysis of Japanese AESOP corpus
AU - Kondo, Mariko
AU - Tsubaki, Hajime
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Fifty Japanese speakers' read speech data of 'the North Wind and the Sun' from the Japanese AESOP corpus was analyzed by automatic alignment using the HTK tool with a modified TIMIT dictionary. The results showed typical phonetic and phonological problems of English pronunciation by Japanese speakers which have been often discussed in EFL. The Japanese subjects' English fluency was evaluated by 8 English teachers, 3 native English and 5 Japanese speaking teachers. Typical EFL pronunciation problems were found more among lower level speakers and become less problematic for fluent speakers. However, some problems were found persistently, even among fluent speakers. The results also suggest that the automatic alignment we have adopted for our corpus analysis provide acceptable data, and that it should be possible to adopt it to analyze L2 English with other L1 Asian languages.
AB - Fifty Japanese speakers' read speech data of 'the North Wind and the Sun' from the Japanese AESOP corpus was analyzed by automatic alignment using the HTK tool with a modified TIMIT dictionary. The results showed typical phonetic and phonological problems of English pronunciation by Japanese speakers which have been often discussed in EFL. The Japanese subjects' English fluency was evaluated by 8 English teachers, 3 native English and 5 Japanese speaking teachers. Typical EFL pronunciation problems were found more among lower level speakers and become less problematic for fluent speakers. However, some problems were found persistently, even among fluent speakers. The results also suggest that the automatic alignment we have adopted for our corpus analysis provide acceptable data, and that it should be possible to adopt it to analyze L2 English with other L1 Asian languages.
KW - AESOP
KW - L1 Japanese
KW - L2 English
KW - automatic alignment
KW - language fluency
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSDA.2012.6422478
DO - 10.1109/ICSDA.2012.6422478
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874255283
SN - 9781467328104
T3 - Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments, Oriental COCOSDA 2012
SP - 123
EP - 128
BT - Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments, Oriental COCOSDA 2012
T2 - 2012 15th International Conference on Speech Database and Assessments, Oriental COCOSDA 2012
Y2 - 9 December 2012 through 12 December 2012
ER -