This paper examines the vowel production of eight young male speakers of Mäori in order to assess whether there are pronunciation differences between those who were raised as L1 speakers of Mäori and those who clearly learnt English first. We demonstrate that the L1 speakers produce two vowel pairs, /a:/ (WÄ), /a/ (WAKA) and /ü:/ (TÜ), /u/ (TUKU) significantly farther back than the L2 speakers....

This study uses articulography, the measurement of the position of tongue and lips during speech, as a tool to quantitatively assess the differences between pronunciations of native and non-native (Dutch) speakers of English. In our study, we focus on two pairs of English sound contrasts: /s/-/ʃ/ and /t/-/θ/. Our analysis focuses on the anterior-posterior position of the tongue tip during the p...

We introduce a new version of the pronunciation software program WinPitch LTL. This completely redesigned version is much more easier to use by the teacher and learner alike, and contains the regular function of prosodic real time display, variable speed playback, prosodic morphing, on screen teacher comment display, etc. New features include video capabilities (the program can process multimed...

Educators and researchers in the acquisition of L2 phonology have called for empirical assessment of the progress students make after using new methods for learning [1], [2]. This study investigated whether unlimited access to a speech-recognition-based language learning program would improve the general goodness of pronunciation of a group of middle-aged immigrant professionals studying Englis...

Naturalization is a translation procedure that is predominantly utilized in the translation of English medical terms into Indonesian. This study focuses on identifying types of naturalization involving the adjustment of spelling and pronunciation and investigating whether naturalization has been appropriately applied based on the rules in the Indonesian general guidance of term formation. The d...

This paper describes an experiment in which groups of children attempted to improve their English pronunciation using an English-language learning software, some English alms, and a speech-to-text software engine. The experiment was designed to examine two hypotheses. The arst is that speechto-text software, trained in an appropriate voice, can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speec...

Many people often struggle to master the pronunciation of foreign languages without much success. One of the reasons why L2 learners are not successful is because teaching pronunciation in the classroom is usually marginalized. With the advent of computers, this problem may partially have been overcome, due to the fact that many different types of systems and software for autonomous learning ha...