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A néma szünetek sajátosságai óvodások és kisiskolások spontán beszédében

Gyarmathy, Dorottya and Horváth, Viktória (2018) A néma szünetek sajátosságai óvodások és kisiskolások spontán beszédében. BESZÉDKUTATÁS, 2018. pp. 134-154. ISSN 1218-8727

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Abstract

Speech is occasionally interrupted by pauses of various length. They are essential parts of human speech. Until the first half of the 20th century researchers examined the pauses mainly from rhetorical aspects, they analysed the relationship between punctuation of written texts and their spoken realisations. Sweet was the first scientist who mentioned pauses as parts of the language system. He connected pauses of speech with breathing, and called “breath group” the section of speech uttered with one act of breathing out. Empirical researches showed that silent pause is the most common phenomenon in the spontaneous speech, and it has many different functions in spontaneous speech (e.g. breathing, marking syntactic boundaries as well as speech planning difficulties, time for self-repair). The aim of the study is the analysis of the interrelation between the temporal pattern and the syntactical position of silent pauses in Hungarian children’s spontaneous speech. Our hypotheses are the following: (i) silent pauses show different temporal characteristics depending on their position, (ii) different temporal patterns would be proved in children’s pauses depending on their age. 40 narratives were recorded at the children’s kindergarten/school in a silent room using a Sony ICD-SX700 tape-recorder. 6, 7, 8- and 9-year-old children (5 boys and 5 girls in each group) participated in the experiment. All of them were monolingual speakers of Hungarian with normal hearing, and typical language acquisition. Children were asked to speak about their family, school and hobbies. The total material was about two hours long (4 minutes per participants, on average) and was annotated using Praat 5.1. We analyzed all occurrences of silent pauses (their position and duration). Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS 20.0 program. We differentiated silent pauses (S) occurring either in phrases or at phrase boundaries and pauses functioning as editing phases (E). Results partly confirmed our hypotheses. The position and function of silent pauses had a main effect on both their occurrences and their durations in the children’s speech similar to the adults’ speech. However, no differences could be pointed out on the durations of silent pauses between the age groups.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet > P119.3 Language and languages. Political aspects / nyelvpolitika
Depositing User: dr. Viktória Horváth
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2018 12:23
Last Modified: 26 Sep 2018 12:23
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/85426

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