Pausing as an indicator of fluency in the russian of finnish learners

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 339-342

  Ullakonoja, Riikka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

STUDENTS;

DISFLUENCIES; FINNISH; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; NON-NATIVE SPEECH; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

SPEECH;

EID: 84902687940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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