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CONTENTS

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Okim Kang and April Ginther

PART I
Current issues in pronunciation assessment

1    Measurement of accentedness, intelligibility, and comprehensibility

Ron Thomson

2    Validity in pronunciation assessment

Luke Harding

3    Pronunciation assessment in the context of World Englishes

Slobodanka Dimova

4    Listeners and raters: similarities and differences in evaluation of accented speech

Xun Yan and April Ginther

5    Assessing pronunciation for research purposes with listener-based numerical scales

Daniel R. Isbell

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PART II
Technology and pronunciation assessment

6    Pronunciation features in rating criteria

Romy Ghanem and Okim Kang

7    Using speech processing technology in assessing pronunciation

Alistair Van Moere and Masanori Suzuki

8    Automated assessment of pronunciation in spontaneous speech

Anastassia Loukina, Larry Davis, and Xiaoming Xi

Index