Cross-linguistic phoneme correspondences, or metaphonemes1, can be defined across languages which are relatively closely related in exactly the same way as correspondences can be defined for dialects, or accents, of a single language (e.g. O’Connor, 1973; Fitt, 2001). In this paper we present the theory of metaphonemes, comparing them with traditional archiand morphophonemes as well as with sim...

This paper is concerned with classification of the 14 regional accents of British English in the ABI (Accents of the British Isles) speech corpus. Results are reported using a state-of-theart Language Identification system, variants of Huckvale’s ACCDIST system, and human listeners. The best performance, 95.18% accuracy, is obtained using the textdependent ACCDIST measure. The performance of a ...

This paper presents a technique to adapt an acoustically based language classifier to the background conditions and speaker accents. This adaptation improves language classification on a broad spectrum of TV broadcasts. The core of the system consists of an iVector-based setup in which language and channel variabilities are modeled separately. The subsequent language classifier (the backend) op...

The article deals with topical challenging issues that are related to the training of future teachers English language. first which is absence any Standards itself. definitions term ‘Standard’ from Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries given. paper also insists neither European Framework nor language proficiency exams (IELTS та TOEFL) standards for their native speakers this type standardization ex...

This study assessed the relation between non-native subjects' age of learning (AOL) English and the overall degree of perceived foreign accent in their production of English sentences. The 240 native Italian (NI) subjects examined had begun learning English in Canada between the ages of 2 and 23 yr, and had lived in Canada for an average of 32 yr. Native English-speaking listeners used a contin...

It is believed that knowledge gained from reliable accent classification could be employed to improve the performance of speech recognition and speaker recognition algorithms. In this paper, we investigate the use of articulatory movement in the spectral domain to classify accented speech. The trajectories are modelled by a mixture of probability density functions of a random sequence of states...

The paper focuses on regional or local variations in English in Nigeria with particular reference to spoken English in which the variations are most noticeable. The three major Nigerian languages Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa are referred to mainly in consideration of the local variations in English. The variations are seen as inevitable because of the nature of the Nigerian society. The different pho...

When the user has an accent different from what the automatic speech recognization system is trained with, the performance of the systems degrades. This is attributed to both acoustic and phonological differences between accents. The phonological differences between two accents are due to different phoneme inventories in two languages. Even for the same phoneme, foreigners and native speakers p...