Prosodic features of language learners' fluency
Satellite Workshop of "Speech Prosody", Leiden (The Netherlands), July 1, 2024
Workshop venue:
Lipsius building
Cleveringaplaats 1, Room 1.47
2311 BD Leiden, The Netherlands
Keynote speakers
Lieke van Maastricht (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Malte Belz (Humboldt University Berlin)
Scientific program
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Check-in | |||
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Welcome | |||
| 09:10 - 09:50 | Chair: Nivja de Jong | |||
| 09:10 - 09:50 | Keynote 1 | Lieke van Maastricht (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
Relating L2 prosody production and perception to fluency: Can gesture help? | abstract |
| 09:50 - 10:30 | Chair: Loredana Schettino | |||
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Talk 1 | Lucia Mareková & Štefan Beňuš (Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia) |
How complexity affects the relationship among speech fluency parameters in (non-)native task-based conversations | abstract |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Talk 2 | Patrik Hrabánek & Willemijn Heeren (Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherl.) |
Disfluency behavior over time in non-contemporaneous L2 English voice messages | abstract |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee | |||
| 10:50 - 12:10 | Chair: Willemijn Heeren | |||
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Talk 3 | Noriko Nakanishi (Kobe Gakuin University, Japan) & Sylvain Coulange (University Grenoble Alpes, France) |
Measuring speech rhythm through automated analysis of syllabic prominences | abstract |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Talk 4 | Katherine Fraser, Joan Carles Mora & Mireia Ortega (University of Barcelona, Spain) |
Examining the relationship between speech rhythm, fluency measures and comprehensibility/accentedness ratings in L2 English speech | abstract |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Talk 5 | Christopher Sappok (University of Cologne, Germany) |
German non-L1-background children's reading fluency - evidence from the longitudinal audio (LAUDIO) corpus on post elementary school development | abstract | 11:50 - 12:10 | Talk 6 | Valentin Kany & Jürgen Trouvain (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany) |
Semiautomatic support of speech fluency assessment by detecting filler particles and determining speech tempo | abstract |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch | |||
| 13:20 - 14:20 | Chair: Bernd Möbius | |||
| 13:20 - 14:00 | Keynote 2 | Malte Belz (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) |
Methodological challenges in L2 fluency research | abstract |
14:00 - 14:20 | Talk 7 | May Wu, Rasmus Steinkrauss & Wander Lowie (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) |
Fluency measures and L2 speaking proficiency levels | abstract |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Coffee | |||
| 14:40 - 16:00 | Chair: Štefan Beňuš | 14:40 - 15:00 | Talk 8 | Nigel Ward (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA) |
Four pragmatic functions associated with different aspects of disfluency in American English dialog | abstract | 15:00 - 15:20 | Talk 9 | Loredana Schettino (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Simona Sbranna (University of Cologne, Germany) & Marta Maffia (University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy) | Does L2 (dis)fluency improve with proficiency? An exploration on Italian learners of German | abstract | 15:20 - 15:40 | Talk 10 | Zezhou Xing & Sasha Calhoun (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) |
How does L2 learners' prosody perception affect their listening fluency? | abstract | 15:40 - 16:00 | Talk 11 | Simon Wehrle & Simona Sbranna (University of Cologne, Germany) |
Longer silence duration in L2 conversations is modulated by proficiency: Evidence from turn-timing in German and Italian | abstract |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Coffee | |||
| 16:20 - 17:20 | Chair: Simon Wehrle | 16:20 - 16:40 | Talk 12 | Papa Séga Wade, Mihai Andries, Ioannis Kanellos (IMT Atlantique, Brest, France) & Thierry Moudenc (Orange Labs, Lannion, France) | Holistic trimodal evaluation of fluency: audio, transcription, and fluency markers | abstract | 16:40 - 17:00 | Talk 13 | Sarah Waldmann (Free University Berlin, Germany) |
Rhythm properties of L2 German and the perceptual dimension | abstract | 17:00 - 17:20 | Talk 14 | Seth Wiener, Adam Bramlett, Bianca Brown & Jocelyn Dueck (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) |
Should we stress fluency or teach fluent stress? Acoustic analysis and fluency judgments of L2 Italian stress | abstract |
| 17:20 - 17:30 | Closing Remarks | |||
| 17:30 - | Reception | |||