DISCRIMINATION METHOD FOR ENGLISH PRONOUNCIATION OF L FROM R, AND DEVICE FOR PRACTICING ENGLISH HEARING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily catch English pronounciation by classifying English consonants to plural groups and recognize a sound specific to an English sound system. ;SOLUTION: Two consonants ua, ia are added to English sounds, and 24 pieces of consonants are divided to eight pieces of groups. Respective groups consist of plosives, the original sounds and reverse plosives. Respective original sounds are provided with three pieces of attributes, and respective attributes act to the original sounds to generate a piece of sound. A phonetic symbol 7 and a group 8 are displayed on an application window of a personal computer. For instance, when a first group (k w t) (p y s) is clicked, first of all, the sounds of the phonetic symbols k, w, t are outputted, and an icon consisting of a squint figure of a rectangle waveguide is displayed on an attribute display position 10. For clearly distinguishing 24 pieces of consonants, a shape of the oral cavity may be made so as to be shown by the icon of the rectangle waveguide. As the training, the group is selected optionally, and outputted sounds are heard.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1998,JPO