@inproceedings{238c7c5474c249af88d2236672d7afad,
title = "Applying rhythm metrics to non-native spontaneous speech",
abstract = "This study investigates a variety of rhythm metrics on two corpora of non-native spontaneous speech and compares the nonnative distributions to values from a corpus of native speech. Several of the metrics are shown to differentiate well between native and non-native speakers and to also have moderate correlations with English proficiency scores that were assigned to the non-native speech. The metric that had the highest correlation with English proficiency scores (apart from speaking rate) was rPVIsyl (the raw Pairwise Variability Index for syllables), with r = 0.43.",
keywords = "rhythm, second language learning, speech",
author = "Catherine Lai and Keelan Evanini and Klaus Zechner",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
booktitle = "Proceedings of SLaTE 2013",
note = "Interspeech 2013 Satellite workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education ; Conference date: 30-08-2013 Through 01-09-2013",
}