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What Is "Natural" Speech? Comparing Free Narratives and Frog Stories in Indonesia
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Marian Klamer; Francesca R. Moro – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
While there is overall consensus that narratives obtained by means of visual stimuli contain less natural language than free narratives, it has been less clear how the naturalness of a narrative can be measured in a crosslinguistically meaningful way. Here this question is addressed by studying the differences between free narratives and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Research, Visual Stimuli, Contrastive Linguistics