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Second language fluency: re-thinking utterance fluency from a phonetics-phonology interface
Gillian Wigglesworth, Isadora Reynolds Cavallieri, Olga Maxwell, S Calhoun (ed.), P Escudero (ed.), M TABAIN (ed.), P Warren (ed.)
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 | Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. | Published : 2019
Abstract
Research into second language fluency has called for cross-linguistic studies to rule out measures that can be attributed to intra-speaker variation. However, cross-linguistic comparisons in fluency studies are problematic. Research in the area has not necessarily taken into consideration differences across languages such as syllable structure, phonotactics, durational cues to prominence and prosodic levels, and idiosyncratic nature of pause duration.