Quantitative assessment of second language learners' fluency: Comparisons between read and spontaneous speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2862-2873

  Cucchiarini, Catia ^a   Strik, Helmer ^a   Boves, Lou ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SPEECH;

BIOACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; READING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036314162     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1471894     Document Type: Article

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