LING 3P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Speech Recognition, Pragmatics, Praat
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Less of an issue when comparing consonant sounds. But there are more vowels in received pronunciation (more diphthongs) (they between balm and bawm) Lecture 9: issues in l2 pronunciation instruction (cont. ) Examines factors which should be considered in calculating the functional load between a pair of phonemes. Uses pairs of phonemes (in received pronunciation) that are often conflated as a framework for statistical analysis of these factors. As opposed to the use of gae-general american?) contrast. Calculated by adding the individual frequencies of each phoneme in the pair. In rp the cumulative freq for the pair /e, ae/ is 11. 05% (/e/=1. 16% + /ae/ = Pairs of phonemes with higher cumulative freqs might be more likely to result in a loss of intelligibility if conflated: probability of occurrence. Calculated by dividing a phonemes individual frequency by the cumulative frequency for the pair.
