Production and Perception of non-native English in China: Focus on Sociophonetic Variation by Humans and Artificial Agents

Description

This cumulative dissertation investigates features of sociolinguistic variation in spoken English by non-native humans and agents. It presents a thorough summary and systematization of previous research on Chinese English, a quantitative analysis of the Chinese English vowel spaces of speakers from Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan, a quantitative analysis of durational variation of speakers from different inner, outer, and expanding circle varieties of English, and a study of sociophonetic variation by a pedagogical agent. Furthermore, the thesis proposes a linguistically based quality metric for text-to-speech systems.

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1. urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa2-888166
2. https://monarch.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A88816
3. https://monarch.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A88816/attachment/ATT-0/
4. https://monarch.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A88816/attachment/ATT-1/

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Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:88816
Date	16 January 2024
Creators	Albrecht, Sven
Contributors	Schmied, Josef, Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina, Chang, Chenguang, Technische Universität Chemnitz
Source Sets	Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion, doc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text
Rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess