Cross-linguistic articulation rate among near-balanced bilinguals and implications for second language fluency measurement
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The present study examines cross-linguistic articulation rates in read speech among 28 native speakers (14 English and 14 Japanese) and 14 Japanese-English near-balanced bilinguals. The results show that: (1) articulation rates are comparable between the native speakers and the bilinguals; (2) there was a significant difference of articulation rates in Japanese and English among the bilinguals; (3) there is a strong positive correlation between English and Japanese articulation rates among bilinguals. Implications for development of L2 fluency measurement using the L1 fluency as a baseline are discussed.
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