Speech Rates and Unfilled Pauses in Native and Learner Speech at the CEFR Levels B2 and C1

Abstract

The contribution presents the results of a comparative analysis of speech rates and the use of unfilled pauses by learners of English at B2 and C1 proficiency levels and native English speakers.

Keywords

• speech rate
• unfilled pauses
• pausology
• fluency
• learner corpora
• learner language
• contrastive interlanguage analysis