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Fluency in native and nonnative English speech /
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; List of Abbreviations and acronyms; Chapter 1. Fluency in English speech; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Fluency in native and nonnative speech; 1.3 Learning English in Germany; 1.4 Investigating fluency: Fluencemes and target norms; 1.5 A theoretical approach to fluency in speech; 1.6 Fluency in native and nonnative English speech: Preview; Chapter 2. Productive fluency; 2.1 Temporal variables; 2.1.1 Speech rate.
- 2.1.2 Mean length of runs (MLR)2.1.3 Unfilled pauses; 2.1.4 The phonation/time ratio; 2.1.5 Summary; 2.2 Formulaic sequences; 2.2.1 Characteristics of formulaic sequences; 2.2.2 Formulaic sequences and fluency; 2.2.3 Analyzing formulaic sequences; 2.2.4 Formulaic sequences in nonnative speech; 2.2.5 Summary; 2.3 Performance phenomena; 2.3.1 Performance phenomena in native speech; 2.3.2 Performance phenomena in nonnative speech; 2.3.3 Speech management strategies; 2.3.4 Discourse markers and smallwords; 2.3.5 Confluence; 2.3.6 Towards fluency enhancement strategies; 2.4 Summary.
- Chapter 3. Perceptive fluency3.1 Perceptive fluency in native and nonnative speech; 3.2 Accuracy; 3.2.1 Accuracy in native speech; 3.2.2 Accuracy in nonnative speech; 3.3 Idiomaticity; 3.3.1 Idiomaticity in native speech; 3.3.2 Idiomaticity in nonnative speech; 3.4 Intonation; 3.4.1 Intonation in native speech; 3.4.2 Intonation in nonnative speech; 3.5 Accent; 3.5.1 Accent in native speech; 3.5.2 Accent in nonnative speech; 3.6 Pragmatic features; 3.6.1 Pragmatic features in native speech; 3.6.2 Pragmatic features in nonnative speech; 3.7 Lexical diversity.
- 3.7.1 Lexical diversity in native speech3.7.2 Lexical diversity in nonnative speech; 3.8 Sentence structure; 3.8.1 Sentence structure in native speech; 3.8.2 Sentence structure in nonnative speech; 3.9 Summary; Chapter 4. Nonverbal fluency; 4.1 Nonverbal fluency in native speech; 4.2 Nonverbal fluency in nonnative speech; 4.3 Summary; Chapter 5. Corpus data and methodology; 5.1 A corpus-based description of fluency in native and nonnative English speech; 5.2 Learner corpus research, fluency and SLA; 5.3 Corpora and tools; 5.4 Methodology; 5.4.1 Pilot study; 5.5 A holistic approach to fluency.
- 5.5.1 Productive fluency: Quantitative and statistical data analysis5.5.2 Perceptive fluency: Native-speaker perception of five selected learners; 5.6 Summary; Chapter 6. Data analysis of productive fluencyin LINDSEI-GE vs. LOCNEC; 6.1 Productive Fluency: Learner data vs. native-speaker data; 6.1.1 Speech rate; 6.1.2 Mean length of runs; 6.1.3 Unfilled pauses; 6.1.4 Formulaic sequences; 6.1.5 Repeats; 6.1.6 Filled pauses; 6.1.7 Discourse markers; 6.1.8 Smallwords; 6.1.9 Summary, caveats and implications; 6.2 Correlations and combinations: Bringing together the fluencemes.