第二语言语音感知的计算机建模

　　本书是关于第二语言感知学习的英文研究专著，主要对二语辅音感知学习过程进行深入研究，并对这一过程进行计算机模拟，具体内容包括：通过隐马尔科夫（HMM）建模技术对辅音知觉同化进行建模；采用HMM技术对二语辅音学习过程进行计算机模拟；对二语辅音初始学习过程进行行为实验研究；通过HMM技术对二语语音初始学习过程中的母语及二语交互影响进行计算机建模；通过机器学习技术对二语语音初始学习过程中学习者辅音空间的演变进行3D可视化建模。

　　Gong Jian，PhD， Master student supervisor， Associate Professor at the School of Foreign Languages，Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He obtained an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering from the University of Sheffield， UK， and a PhDin Applied Linguistics from the University of the Basque Country， Spain. His research interests include speech perception， second language acquisition，psycholinguistics， neurolinguistics， speech signal processing， and computational modelling of speech perception. He is now a council member of the Chinese Second Language Processing Association，a member of the International Speech Communication Association （ISCA）， and the International Phonetic Association （IPA）. He has published several papers in top journals and conferences including Speech Communication， System， Interspeech and ICPhS.He has been the Principle Investigator for several projects supported by the Humanities and Social Science Fund of the Ministry of Education of China，and the Jiangsu Social Science Fund.

Chapter 1 Introduction
1．1 Motivation
1．2 Book structure
Chapter 2 Speech perception and L2 sounds acquisition
2．1 Theories of speech perception
2．1．1 Motor Theory
2．1．2 Direct Realist Theory
2．1．3 General Auditory Approach
2．2 11 influence and the theoretical models in L2 sounds acquisition
2．2．1 Perceptual Assimilation Model
2．2．2 Speech Learning Model
2．2．3 PAM-L2 Model
2．2．4 Native Language Magnet Model
2．3 Age， input and other factors in L2 sounds acquisition
2．3．1 Critical period hypothesis
2．3．2 AOL and AOA
2．3．3 LOR and exposure
2．3．4 Other individual factors
2．3．5 Dialect and regional accent influences on speech perception
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Chapter 3 Towards a quantitative model of Mandarin Chinese perception of English consonants
Chapter 4 A computational modelling approach to the development of L2 sounds acquisition
Chapter 5 Rapid learning of foreign language sounds：An investigation into Spanish consonant acquisition by Chinese learners
Chapter 6 Computational modelling the development of Spanish consonant acquisition by Chinese listeners
Chapter 7 Consonant space modelling using Generative Topographic Mapping
Chapter 8 Summary and future directions
Appendix A Spanish consonant confusions for Chinese listeners
Appendix B Model-listener RMS distance and shape indices
Appendix C Hinton diagrams for model and listener Spanish consonant confusion matrices
Appendix D KL distances between Spanish consonants in GTM
List of Figures
List of Tables
Bibliography
Postscript