The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility of Danish among Swedes

Charlotte Gooskens; Renee van Bezooijen

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The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility of Danish among Swedes

Charlotte Gooskens, Renee van Bezooijen

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics
Editors	Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O Schiller, Ellen van Zanten
Place of Publication	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	96-108
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9789027269065, 9789027212160
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/z.189.08goo
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)

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Gooskens, Charlotte ; van Bezooijen, Renee. / The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility of Danish among Swedes. Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics. editor / Johanneke Caspers ; Yiya Chen ; Willemijn Heeren ; Jos Pacilly ; Niels O Schiller ; Ellen van Zanten. 1. ed. Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. pp. 96-108

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Gooskens, C & van Bezooijen, R 2014, The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility of Danish among Swedes. in J Caspers, Y Chen, W Heeren, J Pacilly, N O Schiller & E van Zanten (eds), Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics. 1 edn, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.189.08goo

The effect of pause insertion on the intelligibility of Danish among Swedes. / Gooskens, Charlotte; van Bezooijen, Renee.
Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics. ed. / Johanneke Caspers; Yiya Chen; Willemijn Heeren; Jos Pacilly; Niels O Schiller; Ellen van Zanten. 1. ed. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. p. 96-108.

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