Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Breakdown Fluency:The extent to which speech is interrupted by pauses or hesitations, particularly unfilled or silent pauses, which often indicate processing difficulties during real-time communication.Cognitive Fluency: The efficiency and automaticity with which a speaker retrieves and processes linguistic information during speech, including factors such as lexical access and retrieval speed.Dialogic Task: A speaking task involving real-time interaction between two or more participants, requiring turn-taking, negotiation of meaning, and spontaneous responses. Fluency Transfer:The influence of a speaker's first language fluency patterns on their fluency performance in a second language.Interactional fluency: The ability to manage the flow of conversation smoothly and responsively in real-time, including turn-taking, backchanneling, and response timing. Lexical Access:The cognitive process of retrieving appropriate words from the mental lexicon during speech production. Lexical Complexity:The degree to which a speaker uses sophisticated or less frequent vocabulary, often measured through word length, frequency, or level of abstraction. Lexical Diversity:The range of unique words a speaker uses within a given speech sample, typically assessed using type-token ratios or similar indices. Lexical Fluency:The speed and efficiency with which words are retrieved and produced during spontaneous speech. Lexical Range:The breadth of vocabulary available to a speaker across various semantic fields or functional categories.Lexical Richness: A composite measure encompassing lexical diversity, complexity, and range, reflecting the overall sophistication of a speaker's vocabulary use. Lexical Variety:The extent to which a speaker avoids repetition by using a broad and varied set of lexical items.Monologic Task: A speaking task requiring sustained individual speech without interaction, often structured around a prompt or topic.Objective Measures: Quantifiable indicators of language performance derived from acoustic or temporal data, such as articulation rate, pause frequency, or repair instances, used to assess fluency without relying on listener judgment. Oral Fluency:A multifaceted linguistic construct reflecting a speaker's ability to produce speech that is smooth and coherent, encompassing temporal features (e.g., speed, pausing, etc.), as well as listener perceptions of naturalness.
Author: C DION, CLINGWALL
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7208244657