What speaking rates do non-native listeners prefer?

By Tracey M. Derwing, Murray J. Munro. 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Okim Kang
2. Donald Rubin
3. Andrea Révész
4. Larry Vandergrift
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In Language and Linguistics

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2. Tineke Brunfaut
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6. Lucy Pickering
7. T. Isaacs
8. Christine Goh

Citations in the corpus

• Recent developments in second and foreign language listening comprehension research (2007, background): “In their investigation of preferred rate of speech by L2 listeners, Derwing & Munro (2001) found that adjusting the rate of speech did not result in improvements in listener ratings of ‘too fast’ or ‘too slow’.”
• Suprasegmental Measures of Accentedness and Judgments of Language Learner Proficiency in Oral English (2010, methodology): “In fact, Derwing and Munro (2001) noted that the “ideal” rate of English production for English NS listeners of NNS speech is 4.1 syllables per second, compared to 4.7 for NS production.”
• TEXT CHARACTERISTICS OF TASK INPUT AND DIFFICULTY IN SECOND LANGUAGE LISTENING COMPREHENSION (2013, background): “The two most common measures that have been employed in listening research are words per minute (WPM; e.g., Brindley & Slatyer, 2002 ; Griffi ths, 1990 , 1992 ; Zhao, 1997 ) and syllables per second (e.g., Derwing & Munro, 2001 ).”