UNPREPARED READING AS A TYPE OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH (on Signs of Spontaneity in Reading in a Non-Native Language)

The article discusses unprepared reading in a non-native language and shows it to have all the signs of spontaneity that are traditionally considered integral characteristics any spontaneous speech: hesitation pauses, both physical (ɭ) filled with non-speech sounds (uh, m-m), word breaks, whole or part by syllables, vocalization consonant, so forth. material for analysis included 40 monologues story M. Zoshchenko Fantasy Shirt non-plot excerpt from V. Korolenko’s Blind Musician recorded 20 Chinese informants. All block Russian interfering speech as monologic corpus Ba­lanced Annotated Text Library. As showed, is more often there not one sign but complex such signs, together they fill help speaker control quality correct what was said, etc. In addition, occurrence various course closely related individual speaker/reader. general, we found men (3,244 cases; 40.7 %) than women (2,049; 27.7 %), informants lower level proficiency B2 (2,993; 37.9 higher C1 (2,300; 30.8 extroverts (1,521; 38 ambiverts (1,694; 35,2 introverts (2,078; 31,7 %). type source text, turned out be plot text (3,031; 40.3 vs 2,283; 31 paper concludes should recognized activity.