Quy-Thao Truong

Referential Vowel Duration Ratio as a Feature for Automatic Assessment of L2 Word Prosody

This paper proposes a referential vowel duration ratio for a pair of vowels in consecutive syllables and a weighted mean of the referential vowel duration ratios on a logarithmic scale as a feature for automatic assessment of second-language (L2) word prosody. In addition to contours of fundamental…