Quantitative assessment of second language learners' fluency: comparisons between read and spontaneous speech.

@article{Cucchiarini2002QuantitativeAO,
  title={Quantitative assessment of second language learners' fluency: comparisons between read and spontaneous speech.},
  author={Catia Cucchiarini and Helmer Strik and Lou Boves},
  journal={The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year={2002},
  volume={111 6},
  pages={
          2862-73
        }
}
This paper describes two experiments aimed at exploring the relationship between objective properties of speech and perceived fluency in read and spontaneous speech. The aim is to determine whether such quantitative measures can be used to develop objective fluency tests. Fragments of read speech (Experiment 1) of 60 non-native speakers of Dutch and of spontaneous speech (Experiment 2) of another group of 57 non-native speakers of Dutch were scored for fluency by human raters and were analyzed… 
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