What makes speech sound fluent? The contributions of pauses, speed and repairs

Language Testing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-175

  Bosker, Hans Rutger ^a   Pinget, Anne France ^a   Quené, Hugo ^a   Sanders, Ted ^a   de Jong, Nivja H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fluency perception; pauses; perceptual sensitivity; repair; speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875997208     PISSN: 02655322     EISSN: 14770946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265532212455394     Document Type: Article

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