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DESCRIPTION:In the first part of the presentation\, I will introduce the Po
 intwise-Mutual-Information-based Levenshtein distance which is able to det
 ermine sensitive pronunciation distances and sound segment distances on th
 e basis of transcribed speech (Wieling et al.\, 2012). I will then apply t
 he PMI-based Levenshtein distance to transcriptions of accented English sp
 eech obtained from the Speech Accent Archive(http://accent.gmu.edu) and va
 lidate the method by comparing the computational distances to perceptual j
 udgments of hundreds of native American English speakers (Wieling et al.\,
  in press).In the second part of the presentation\, I will illustrate how 
 articulography (i.e. measuring the movement of tongue and lips during spee
 ch) is useful for comparing pronunciations. To illustrate the method\, I w
 ill show significant movement differences between native and non-native sp
 eakers of English speakers\, as well as Dutch dialect speakers.References 
 (all papers are available at http://www.martijnwieling.nl):    Fabian Toma
 schek\, Martijn Wieling\, Denis Arnold and Harald Baayen (2013). Word freq
 uency\, vowel length and vowel quality in speech production: An EMA study 
 of the importance of experience. Interspeech 2013.  Martijn Wieling\, Jelk
 e Bloem\, Kaitlin Mignella\, Mona Timmermeister and John Nerbonne (forthco
 ming). Automatically measuring the strength of foreign accents in English.
  Language Dynamics and Change.  Martijn Wieling\, Eliza Margaretha and Joh
 n Nerbonne (2012). Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from pronunci
 ation variation. Journal of Phonetics\, 40(2)\, 307-314      Bio:  Martijn
  Wieling is a postdoctoral fellow working at the Department of Humanities 
 Computing\, University of Groningen\, Groningen\, analyzing tongue and lip
  movements of second language learners. The four-year project is funded by
  a Veni grant (€ 250\,000) of the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific R
 esearch. His second affiliation is with the University of Tübingen\, where
  he collaborates with Harald Baayen. Dr. Wieling is visiting the Motor Con
 trol Lab headed by David J. Ostry
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LOCATION:CA\, Goodman Cancer Research Centre\, Room 501\, 1200 Pine Avenue 
 West
SUMMARY: Comparing dialect and accented pronunciations on the basis of tran
 scriptions and articulography: Martijn Wieling\, PhD
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 ect-and-accented-pronunciations-basis-transcriptions-and-articulography
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