The study of Burleson (2007), native Mandarin speakers were requested to practices minimal pairs of vowel contrasts. The participants listen to a model pronunciation first before speak to microphone to have a computerized speech recognizer providing feedback on the their utterance. Results of the evaluation study found significant improvements in participants' pronunciation.
Interestingly, the author observed a drop in the pronunciation of the [i]-[I] contrast. It was speculated that such observations might be due to the influences of the preponderance stimuli and participants might have overapplied what they have learned.
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Interestingly, the author observed a drop in the pronunciation of the [i]-[I] contrast. It was speculated that such observations might be due to the influences of the preponderance stimuli and participants might have overapplied what they have learned.
http://gradworks.umi.com/32/55/3255507.html
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