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

By Hans Rutger Bosker, Anne-France Pinget, Hugo Quené, Ted Sanders, Nivja H. de Jong. 2013

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Exploring the relationship between productive vocabulary knowledge and second language oral ability (2019, background): “In addition, other researchers ask linguistically trained judges to evaluate specific aspects of language, such as segmental (Piske, MacKay and Flege 2001), prosodic (Field 2005), and temporal (Bosker et al. 2013) qualities of L2 speech (see also Saito, Trofimovich and Isaacs 2015, 2016).”
The Effects of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency on Communicative Adequacy in Oral Task Performance (2014, result): “The fact that filled pause frequency, a breakdown fluency measure, had the strongest effect on adequacy is in line with the findings of fluency research, where perceived fluency judged by raters is consistently found to have strong associations with breakdown fluency (see Bosker et al. 2013).”
LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS OF COMPREHENSIBILITY AND PERCEIVED FLUENCY: AN INVESTIGATION OF COMPLEXITY, ACCURACY, AND FLUENCY IN SECOND LANGUAGE ARGUMENTATIVE SPEECH (2019, methodology): “Furthermore, to avoid collinearity among the measures, we decided to assign only a few general measures to each (sub-)construct, considering comparability with previous studies and their validity (see Bosker et al., 2013; Norris & Ortega, 2009; Polio & Shea, 2014).”
Fluency in Second Language Testing: Insights From Different Disciplines (2018, background): “Like Bosker et al. (2013), they tried to avoid the problem of multicollinearity by choosing measures that are—mathematically and theoretically—unrelated to potentially distinguish measures that do from those that do not share overlap between L1 and L2. They found that for all measures, significant r”
Using Listener Judgments to Investigate Linguistic Influences on L2 Comprehensibility and Accentedness: A Validation and Generalization Study (2015, background): “To date, empirical studies examining the validity of raters’ intuitive judgments of specific areas of L2 speech have been confined to investigations of fluency (e.g. Derwing et al. 2004; Bosker et al. 2013), with only one study targeting both comprehensibility and accentedness (Derwing et al.”
Second language fluency and its underlying cognitive and social determinants (2016, background): “Researchers often use such judgments to assign fluency levels to the L2 speakers under study (Bosker et al. 2012; Derwing et al. 2004; Préfontaine et al. 2015). Perceived fluency can reflect something about the objective characteristics of oral fluency. For example, Préfontaine (2013) collected flue”
Native speakers’ perceptions of fluency and accent in L2 speech (2014, methodology): “measures and has already been reported in Bosker et al. (2013). The highest correlation was found between the number of silent pauses (NSP) and the mean length of syllables (MLS) (r = .”