Pronunciation and Spelling: the Case of Misspellings in Swedish L2 Written Essays
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This research presents an investigation performed on the ASU corpus. We analyse to what extent does the pronunciation of intended words reflects in spelling errors done by L2 Swedish learners. We also propose a method that helps to automatically discriminate the misspellings affected by pronunciation from other types of misspellings.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014