Improving Speech Fluency in French through Psycholinguistic Principles
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چکیده
A central aspect of speech fluency in a foreign language is natural phrasing (word grouping). It is often assumed that syntactic principles predict phrasing adequately. This point of view is contradicted by an extensive body of psycholinguistic experimentation. A timing model was developed based on psycholinguistic evidence [Zellner, B. (1996). Structures temporelles et structures prosodiques en frangais lu. "Revue francaise de linguistique appliquee", vol I-1], and was compared to syntactic and phonological models. Assessments of the various models favor the psycholinguistic point of view. This model showed a high correlation between synthesized and natural speech with respect to measures of syllabic duration and grouping words.
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