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Détails phonétiques dans la réalisation des pauses en Français : Etude de parole lue en langue maternelle vs en langue étrangère / Camille Fauth, Jürgen Trouvain. // LANGAGES N° 211 (3/2018)
2018.
p. 81-95

In this study, we investigate the realization of different types of pauses (silent, respiratory and filled pauses) as a function of foreign language proficiency. We have recorded 10 native speakers, 10 advanced and 10 beginner learners reading aloud a text. Learners produced more pauses than the native speakers, and the most frequent pause type across all speakers is the breath pause. Surprisingly, the native speakers produced the longest pauses, probably due to the fact that most of their unfilled pauses were breath pauses. In our data, phonetically silent pauses are rare and predominantly used by the learners in disfluent phases whereas breath pauses (with an audible respiratory noise and thus not silent) are frequent and generally realized at syntactic boundaries.
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Variation de la durée des pauses silencieuses : Impact de la syntaxe, du style de parole et des disfluences / Iulia Grosman, Anne Catherine Simon, Liesbeth Degand. // Langages N° 211 (3/2018)
2018.
p. 13-40.

The study aims to uncover the relation between frequency and duration of silent pauses, their interaction with syntax and with disfluencies, and their variation in different spoken registers. The analysis of 4 845 silent pauses retrieved from a multi-genre corpus (duration 3 h 38 min) demonstrates that syntactic position is the strongest predictor of silent pause duration. This correlation is stronger in prepared and broadcasted speech. We discuss the use of duration thresholds for filtering out silent pauses and we also suggest alternative ways to represent pause duration when pauses are not normally distributed.