Our research investigates which phonetic characteristics of spontaneous and read-aloud speech enable listeners to distinguish between the two* Material containing vocal hesitations, ungrammatical pauses, and/or poorly marked syntactic boundaries (48 non-fluent utterances) and material containing none of these features (48 fluent utterances) was selected from a spontaneous monologue of one speaker. This material was transcribed! and read aloud by the same speaker. In a listening experiment subjects were able to identify these read-aloud and spontaneous utterances correctly. Moreover, the presence of non-fluencies in spontaneous utterances does not substantially facilitate identification. Correlations between identification scores and some potential cues are presented.
Cite as: Blaauw, E. (1991) Phonetic characteristics of spontaneous and read-aloud speech. Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles, paper 012
@inproceedings{blaauw91_ppst,
author={Eleonora Blaauw},
title={{Phonetic characteristics of spontaneous and read-aloud speech}},
year=1991,
booktitle={Proc. ESCA Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles},
pages={paper 012}
}