BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250724T110500EDT-4249ShPU4K@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250724T150500Z DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In the first part of the presentation\, I will intro duce the Pointwise-Mutual-Information-based Levenshtein distance which is able to determine sensitive pronunciation distances and sound segment dist ances on the basis of transcribed speech (Wieling et al.\, 2012). I will t hen apply the PMI-based Levenshtein distance to transcriptions of accented English speech obtained from the Speech Accent Archive (http://accent.gmu .edu) and validate the method by comparing the computational distances to perceptual judgments of hundreds of native American English speakers (Wiel ing et al.\, in press). In the second part of the presentation\, I will i llustrate how articulography (i.e. measuring the movement of tongue and li ps during speech) is useful for comparing pronunciations. To illustrate th e method\, I will show significant movement differences (obtained using ge neralized additive modeling) between native English speakers from Canada a nd German non-native English speakers. In addition\, I show some Dutch dia lect differences on the basis of articulography\, and I will discuss the r esults of a recent preliminary study (Tomaschek et al.\, 2013) we conducte d in Tübingen showing the surprising effect word frequency has on the arti culatory movements associated with the pronunciation of German vowels. Re ferences (all papers are available at http://www.martijnwieling.nl): Fa bian Tomaschek\, Martijn Wieling\, Denis Arnold and Harald Baayen (2013). Word frequency\, vowel length and vowel quality in speech production: An E MA study of the importance of experience. Interspeech 2013. Martijn Wieli ng\, Jelke Bloem\, Kaitlin Mignella\, Mona Timmermeister and John Nerbonne (forthcoming). Automatically measuring the strength of foreign accents in English. Language Dynamics and Change. Martijn Wieling\, Eliza Margareth a and John Nerbonne (2012). Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from pronunciation variation. Journal of Phonetics\, 40(2)\, 307-314. Bio : Martijn Wieling is a postdoctoral fellow working at the University of G roningen (Department of Information Science)\, analyzing tongue and lip mo vements of second language learners. The four-year project is funded by a Veni grant (€ 250\,000) of the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Rese arch. His second affiliation is with the University of Tübingen\, where he collaborates with Harald Baayen. DTSTART:20140918T173000Z DTEND:20140918T190000Z LOCATION:CA\, Goodman Cancer Research Centre\, Room 501\, 1200 Pine Avenue West SUMMARY:Comparing pronunciations on the basis of transcriptions and articul ography: Martijn Wieling\, PhD URL:/channels-contribute/channels/event/comparing-pron unciations-basis-transcriptions-and-articulography-martijn-wieling-phd- END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR