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- Title
The Perception of Fluency in Native and Nonnative Speech.
- Authors
Bosker, Hans Rutger; Quené, Hugo; Sanders, Ted; Jong, Nivja H.
- Abstract
Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency level. However, disfluencies (such as pauses, fillers, repairs, etc.) occur in both native and nonnative speech and it is as yet unclear how fluency raters weigh the fluency characteristics of native and nonnative speech. Two rating experiments compared the way raters assess the fluency of native and nonnative speech. The fluency characteristics were controlled by using phonetic manipulations in pause (Experiment 1) and speed characteristics (Experiment 2). The results show that the ratings of manipulated native and nonnative speech were affected in a similar fashion. This suggests that there is no difference in the way listeners weigh the fluency characteristics of native and nonnative speakers.
- Subjects
FLUENCY (Language learning); SPEECH research; NATIVE language; PHONETICS; LANGUAGE research
- Publication
Language Learning, 2014, Vol 64, Issue 3, p579
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lang.12067