Resources
Resources
- CMU spinoff firm's software teaches non-native speakers
clearer English
- 1. GRAPHEME_TO-PHONEME DICTIONARY: I am one of the people who has
worked on CMUDICT a large grapheme-to-phoneme dictionary containing over
130,000 entries. CMUDICT can be used for a variety of applications and
research topics. It is distributed as open source software and can be
found at: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
- 2. NEW FINDINGS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING:
One of the
most promising directions that I know of for language learning is the one
that started with D. Pisoni, A. Bradlow (Northwestern) and R. Yamada (ATR). They
create pairs of sounds (R and L for Japanese learners of English) and
acoustically “pull them apart” until the student can hear the difference
between them. Students for whom this training works often can pronounce a
new sound without having pronunciation training on it.
- 3. FAUX AMIS: I compiled a list of words
(click here) that appear to be the same, but have very different meanings
in French and English. The list is available here and if you find other
entries or would like to suggest modifications or corrections, please
download and let me know. I will be glad to post your comments and make
changes to the list for all to use. Eventually I will add the meanings!