Measuring spoken language: a unit for all reasons

By Pauline Foster, Alan Tonkyn, Gillian Wigglesworth. 2000

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence

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Citations in the corpus

• Contrasting Effects of Starting Age and Input on the Oral Performance of Foreign Language Learners (2014, background): “An AS unit ‘is a single speaker’s utterance consisting of an independent clause, at San Francisco State U niversity on July 2, 2014 http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/ D ow nloaded from or subclausal unit, together with any subordinate clause(s) associated with either’ (Foster et al. 2000: 365).”
• Learner-generated content and engagement in second language task performance (2017, methodology): “All performances were transcribed into Analysis of Speech (AS) units following Foster, Tonkyn, and Wigglesworth (2000), and pruned to exclude filled pauses, false starts, hesitations, and reformulation (Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005).”
• Second language fluency: speaking style or proficiency? Correcting measures of second language fluency for first language behavior (2015, methodology): “Besides orthographic transcriptions, the two research assistants inserted information relevant for measuring aspects of fluency. Silent pauses were detected by careful listening and by using the waveform (as shown in CLAN), and measured manually in milliseconds. The transcriptions were also split up”
• Task Design and Second Language Performance: The Effect of Narrative Type on Learner Output (2008, methodology): “…of speech units (AS-units) clauses mean length of unit (MLU) The AS-units and clauses divide the data into complete and dependent syntactic units and enable a syntactic complexity measure to be calculated as a ratio of clauses to AS-units (see Foster et al., 2000, for a full account).”