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Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phoneticsEdited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten
[Not in series 189] 2014
► pp. 96–108
The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility of Danish among Swedes
Charlotte Gooskens | University of Groningen
Scharpff & Van Heuven (1988) have shown that low-quality, synthetic speech is
better understood when pauses are inserted at prosodic boundaries. Their study
pertains to an L1 situation. In the present paper we test the hypothesis that the
positive effect of particular pauses on intelligibility within the same language
can be generalized to speech of an unknown but closely related language. We
presented long Danish sentences to Swedish listeners in two versions, one without
pauses and one with pauses at prosodic boundaries. The results showed that
the percentage of correct translations was higher for sentences with pauses than
for sentences without pauses, thus confirming our hypothesis.
Published online: 10 December 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.189.08goo
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.189.08goo
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