Speech Rhythm in Spontaneous and Controlled L2 Speaking Modes: Exploring Differences and Distance Measures

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.21.4.04

Katherine Fraser, Joan C. Mora

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Abstract

Studies of speech rhythm have often used read speech rather than spontaneous speech in their comparisons. However, read speech has been shown to be perceptually different from spontaneous speech, which may be due to rhythmic differences between the two modes. To examine this, the effect of speaking mode (spontaneous or controlled) was assessed in a group of 82 Spanish-Catalan learners of English relative to a control group of 8 native English speakers. Results found strong rhythmic differences between the two modes, but minimal differences between the learners and native speakers. Additionally, Mahalanobis distance analyses revealed that non-native speakers differed significantly more from the native control group in the spontaneous condition than the controlled condition.

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自发和受控 L2 说话模式中的语音节奏：探索差异和距离测量法

有关语音节奏的研究通常使用朗读语音而非自发语音进行比较。然而，已证明朗读语音与自发语音在感知上有所不同，这可能是由于两种模式之间的节奏差异造成的。为了研究这一点，我们对一组 82 名西班牙-加泰罗尼亚英语学习者和一组 8 名以英语为母语的对照组进行了口语模式（自发或受控）影响的评估。结果发现，两种模式之间的节奏差异很大，但学习者与母语为英语者之间的差异很小。此外，Mahalanobis 距离分析表明，在自发状态下，非母语者与母语对照组之间的差异明显大于控制状态。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.