Measures and perceptions of liveliness in student oral presentation speech: A proposal for an automatic feedback mechanism

System

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 575-591

  Hincks, Rebecca ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CALL; English for specific purposes; Fluency; Intonation; Learner corpora; Oral presentation skills; Pitch; Prosody; Speech analysis; Speech rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744517802     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2005.04.002     Document Type: Article

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