Open AccessSpeech fluency: a result of oral language proficiency?
Author(s) -
Vesna Požgaj Hadži,
Damir Horga,
Tatjana Balažic Bulc
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.52.1.87-100
Subject(s) - fluency , linguistics , articulation (sociology) , psychology , relation (database) , computer science , philosophy , politics , political science , law , database
The aim of this paper is to answer the question of the influence of language proficiency on speech fluency in relation to speakers’ other cognitive abilities by comparing the speech of research participants who speak Slovenian as L1 and Croatian as LF. By using the method of acoustic and corpus analysis, the values of speech rate, articulation rate, mean length of runs and the length and frequency of certain pauses are presented