John Osborne

List of John Benjamins publications for which John Osborne plays a role.

Osborne, John 2013 Fluency, complexity and informativeness in native and non-native speechErrors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora, Gilquin, Gaëtanelle and Sylvie De Cock (eds.), pp. 139–161 | Article
Individual speakers vary considerably in their rate of speech, their syntactic choices, and the organisation of information in their discourse. This study, based on a corpus of monologue productions from native and non-native speakers of English and French, examines the relations between temporal… read more
Osborne, John 2011 Fluency, complexity and informativeness in native and non-native speechErrors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora, Gilquin, Gaëtanelle and Sylvie De Cock (eds.), pp. 276–298 | Article
Individual speakers vary considerably in their rate of speech, their syntactic choices, and the organization of information in their discourse. This study, based on a corpus of monologue productions from native and non-native speakers of English and French, examines the relations between temporal… read more
When language learners produce “simple” errors (e.g. omission of 3rd person -s) on forms where their performance is predominantly target-like, are these errors random instances of backsliding, or is there some pattern to the contexts in which they appear? This chapter looks at four such errors –… read more