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Bosker, Hans Rutger; Quené, Hugo; Sanders, Ted; de Jong, Nivja H. – Language Learning, 2014
Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency level. However, disfluencies (such as pauses, fillers, repairs, etc.) occur in both native and nonnative speech and it is as yet unclear how fluency raters weigh the fluency characteristics of native and nonnative…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Speech Communication