@InProceedings{Ding2016_340,
<br/>   author = {Hongwei Ding and Rainer Jäckel and Rüdiger Hoffmann},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2016},
<br/>   title = {A Preliminary Study on the Inter-Lexical Pauses in L2 English Read by Chinese Students},
<br/>   year = {2016},
<br/>   editor = {Oliver Jokisch},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {191--197},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {This study is concerned with the organization of inter-lexical pauses
of L2 English speech produced by Chinese students. Foreign language learners
(L2 learners) have often been observed to lack a natural “rhythm” when reading
aloud. This investigation analyzed read speech of 5 English sentences at three
different speech tempos by 18 Chinese native speakers. We compared the patterns
of inter-lexical pauses of the Chinese subjects in the collected speech with those
of the native English speakers reported in previous literature. It was found that
the Chinese speakers could hardly read English at a very fast speech rate. Their
patterns of inter-lexical pauses were more similar to those of the native speakers
at a slow or normal speech rate than at a fast speech rate. However, most inter-
lexical pause patterns of L2 English by the Chinese speakers deviate from those
of the native speakers, which may result in foreign-accented speech with degraded
intelligibility. We suggest that the importance of the organization of pauses between
words should be taken into account in L2 English speech learning and teaching.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-959080-40-8},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Fremdspracherwerb, Dialekt- und Korpusanalyse},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2016_191_197.pdf},
<br/>}