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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.
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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
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