Fluency in terms of speed of speech and (lack of) hesitations such as silent and filled pauses
('uhm's) is part of oral proficiency. Language assessment rubrics therefore include aspects of …

Filled pauses are widely considered as a relatively consistent feature of an individual's
speech. However, acoustic consistency has only been observed within single-session …

In forensic speaker comparisons, the current practice is to try to avoid comparisons between
speech fragments in different languages. However, globalization requires an exploration of …

Speech rate and pause are aspects of prosody with great potential for sociophonetic
research. They are features that have been examined in diverse ways over the years, often …

Filler particles like uhm in English or ähm in German show subtle language-specific
differences and their variation in form is related to socio-linguistic variables like gender. The …

This paper provides new data on speech tempo in typically developing Hungarian-speaking
children and adolescents obtained in three different speaking contexts and analyzed using …

With forensic recordings being collected in multiple languages increasingly often, this study
investigates the language dependency of the voiceless alveolar fricative/s/in speakers of …

This study investigates the frequency and prosodic form of filler particles (FP, such as uh and
uhm) produced by speakers of English, with and without a heritage language (HL) …

Speech is made up of a continuous stream of speech sounds that is interrupted by pauses
and breathing. As phoneticians are primarily interested in describing the segments of the …

Forensic voice comparison (FVC) involving bilingual speakers presents a substantial
challenge to forensic practitioners. Previous FVC research suggests that discriminatory …