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ROSE, Ralph Leon
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering
Job title
Professor
Degree
Ph.D. ( 2005.06 Northwestern University )
MA TES/FL ( 1998.07 University of Birmingham )
BS ( 1988.05 Wheaton College )
Homepage URL
http://www.roselab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/

Research Experience

  • 2008.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Science and Engineering   Associate Professor

  • 2005.04
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    2008.03

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University   Faculty of International Communication   Associate Professor

  • 1997.04
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    1999.03

    Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College   Assistant Professor

  • 1994.04
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    1997.03

    Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College   Instructor

  • 1990.08
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    1994.03

    ECC Institute of Foreign Languages   Hiroshima School   Native English Instructor

  • 1988.08
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    1990.07

    Koyo Higashi High School   English Department   Assistant English Teacher (AET)

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Education Background

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    2005.05

    Northwestern University   Graduate School, Division of Linguistic Sciences   Linguistics (Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics)  

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    1998.05

    Birmingham University   Graduate School, Division of Language Education   Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language  

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    1988.05

    Wheaton College   Faculty of Liberal Arts(Natural Sciences)   Physics  

Research Areas

  • Foreign language education / Linguistics

Research Interests

  • Computational linguistics

  • Hesitation phenomena

  • Fluency

  • Computer-assisted language learning

  • Second language acquisition

Awards

  • AY2018 e-Teaching Award

    2019.03   Waseda University  

    Winner： ROSE, Ralph Leon

  • Cognitive Science Fellow (Northwestern University)

    1999.09  

Media Coverage

  • The Mystery and Occasional Poetry of, Uh, Filled Pauses

    Internet

    Author： Other  

    Atlas Obscura   Atlas Obscura  

    2017.01

    　View Summary

    by Dan Nosowitz

  • Radio Seminar (Takasaki Radio)

    TV or radio program

    Takasaki Radio   Radio Seminar  

    Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan  

    2005.10

    　View Summary

    (with Teruhiko Fukaya and Mark Freiermuth)

  • Videos seen as ideal for motivating students of English

    Newspaper, magazine

    Author： Other  

    Asahi Shimbun   Asahi Evening News  

    p. 7  

    1995.11

    　View Summary

    by Kazunaga Fukushima

 

Papers

  • Fluidity: Real-time Feedback on Acoustic Measures of Second Language Speech Fluency

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020     774 - 778  2020.05  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

    1
    Citation
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  • Improving the Production Efficiency and Well-formedness of Automatically-Generated Multiple-Choice Cloze Vocabulary Questions

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference     7096 - 7103  2020.05  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • A Comparison of Filled Pauses in Scripted and Non-Scripted Spontaneous Speech

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of LPSS 2019: The 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech     21 - 26  2019.11  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • A Comparison of Form and Temporal Characteristics of Filled Pauses in L1 Japanese and L2 English

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan   21 ( 3 ) 33 - 40  2017.12  [Refereed]  [International journal]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

    DOI

  • Crosslinguistic Corpus of Hesitation Phenomena: A corpus for investigating first and second language speech performance

    Rose, Ralph L.

    14TH Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013)     991 - 995  2013  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

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    There is a growing consensus that there is a need to evaluate second language speech performance with respect to first language speech behavior. To support this need, the Crosslinguistic Corpus of Hesitation Phenomena was developed. This freely available corpus is designed to investigate the crosslinguistic influence of speech patterns and consists of recordings of speakers producing first and second language speech samples in response to parallel elicitation tasks in each language. Preliminary results from the corpus are consistent with other findings that second language performance is sometimes correlated with first language speech behavior. In particular, findings show that silent pause rate and duration as well as other hesitation phenomena correlate with first language performance while speech rate does not. Interestingly, repeats also differ from first language production. Results show that the corpus may be a useful tool for researchers who wish to investigate the correspondence between first and second language speech, particularly with respect to the use of hesitation phenomena.

  • Automated Generation of Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions for Assessing English Vocabulary Using GPT-turbo 3.5

    Wang, Qiao, Rose, Ralph L, Orita, Naho, Sugawara, Ayaka

    The Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages     52 - 61  2023.12  [Refereed]  [International journal]

  • Ethical Considerations in the Use of Disfluencies in AI-Generated Speech

    Ralph L. Rose

    Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2     128 - 135  2023.04  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

  • Evaluation Dataset of Multiple-Choice Cloze Items for Vocabulary Training and Testing

    Rose, Ralph L, Orita, Naho, Sugawara, Ayaka, Wang, Qiao

    Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC ’22 Adjunct)    2022.09  [Refereed]  [International journal]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

  • Variation in jitter, shimmer, and intensity of filled pauses and their contexts in native and nonnative speech

    Rose, Ralph L

    Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2021)     59 - 64  2021.10

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Fluidity: Developing second language fluency with real-time feedback during speech practice

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of SLaTE: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education   ( 8 ) 39 - 40  2019.09  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

    DOI

  • The structural signaling effect of silent and filled pauses

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech     19 - 22  2019.09  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

    DOI

  • A crosslinguistic corpus study of silent and filled pauses: When do speakers use filled pauses to fill pauses?

    Rose, Ralph L., Watanabe, Michiko

    Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences     2615 - 2619  2019.08  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Complexity and fluency in L2 speech: Considering L1 speech patterns and L2 proficiency

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Degand, L., Gilquin, G., Meurant, L., & Simon, A-C. (eds.) Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties.     197 - 217  2019.03  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • JESPR: An open-source library for web-based self-paced reading tasks

    Rose, Ralph L.

    IEICE Technical Report   118 ( 63 ) 53 - 58  2018.07

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • ADAPS: A resource for solving the challenge of locating, preparing, displaying, and reusing academic reading texts for learners

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Mackay, J., Birello, M., and Xerri, D. (Eds.), ELT Research in Action: Bridging the Gap between Research and Classroom Practice. Kent, UK: IATEFL     111 - 116  2018.03  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Silent and filled pauses and speech planning in first and second language production

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of DiSS 2017, Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech     49 - 52  2017.08  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Differences in second language speech fluency ratings: native versus nonnative listeners

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of the International Conference "Fluency & Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties"     101 - 103  2017.02  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Automatic Word Quiz Construction Using Regular and Simple English Wikipedia

    Rose, Ralph L.

    INTED2016: 10TH International Technology, Education and Development Conference     8032 - 8040  2016.03  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

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    Word Quiz Constructor is a java application designed to automatically generate vocabulary quiz questions based on corpora. Past work has shown that it generates multiple-choice cloze items using sentences from Wikipedia that are comparable to manually-produced items, but the context sentences tend to be longer and more difficult. The present study describes an evaluation of Simple English Wikipedia as an alternative source for quiz items generated by Word Quiz Constructor. Results show that items generated are shorter and at a lower reading level than those from regular English Wikipedia. But a validation test with native English speakers via Amazon Mechanical Turk suggests that Simple English items with a higher reading level have a somewhat diminished quality. Simple English Wikipedia seems optimal for the generation of low reading level items only. Suggestions are made for the future development of Word Quiz Constructor with Simple English Wikipedia.

    DOI

  • Temporal Variables in First and Second Language Speech and Perception of Fluency

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences    2015.08  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Um and Uh as Differential Delay Markers: The Role of Contextual Factors

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS)    2015.08  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Important issues concerning the communication skills development of students in higher education

    Manalo, Emmanuel, Sheppard, Chris, Rose, Ralph L., and Katada, Fusa

    Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology   54   894 - 895  2012.11  [Refereed]

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    Rose, R. 「第二言語運用における躊躇現象と流暢性」 [Hesitation Phenomena and Fluency in Second Language Development]. In Manalo, E., Sheppard, C., Rose, R., and Katada, F. (Contributors). 「高等教育における学生のコミュニケーション能力開発を巡る重要課題」 [Important issues concerning the communication skills development of students in higher education] symposium. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology (pp. 894–895). Tokyo: Japanese Association of Educational Psychology.

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  • Pausology and Hesitation Phenomena in Second Language Acquisition

    Watanabe, Michiko, Rose, Ralph L.

    The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition     480 - 483  2012.06  [Invited]

  • Joint Information Value of Syntactic and Semantic Prominence for Subsequent Pronominal Reference

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Chiarcos, C., Claus, B., and Grabski, M., (Eds.) "Salience. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on its Function in Discourse"     81 - 104  2011.05

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

    DOI

  • Accommodating Learning Styles: An EFL Pronunciation Course for Science and Engineering Students

    Rose, Ralph L.

    2010 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference     138 - 142  2010.07  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

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    This paper describes a course in pronunciation for science and engineering students studying English as a foreign language in Japan. The course is designed to address the pronunciation needs of science and engineering students while simultaneously catering to the sensory, visual, and active learning styles of these students as well as their interest in and higher aptitude for math, physics, and technology. Students are introduced to the sound system of English and use computer-based tools to look at graphic representations of their own voice, comparing it to those of native speakers. Students learn how to diagnose their own pronunciation problems and develop skills so that they may continue their pronunciation development long after the course is finished through autonomous learning.

    DOI

    Scopus

  • Filled Pauses in Language Teaching: Why and How

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Bulletin of Gunma Prefectural Women's University   29 ( 29 ) 47 - 64  2008.02

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

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  • Pronoun resolution and the influence of syntactic and semantic information on discourse prominence

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Anaphora: Analysis, Algorithms and Applications   4410   28 - 43  2007  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

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    Beginning with the observation that syntactic and semantic information often coincide (i.e., subjects are often agents, objects often patients), this study investigates the possibility that preference to resolve a sentence-initial pronoun to a syntactically prominent antecedent might actually be better explained in terms of preference for resolving to a semantically prominent antecedent. The study takes Discourse Prominence Theory (Gordon and Hendrick [11,12]) as an underlying framework. Results of three psycholinguistic experiments using a self-paced reading task show that both syntactic and semantic information guide readers' pronoun resolution preferences. This suggests a revised understanding of Discourse Prominence Theory in which the prominence of discourse referents is determined through a complex process depending on multiple linguistic factors. Results further show that the relative degree of prominence among competing candidates influences resolution processes.

    DOI

    Scopus

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    Citation
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  • Evidence for Gradient Salience: What Happens with Competing Non-salient Referents during Pronoun Resolution

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Language Technology Workshop     91 - 98  2006.11  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Joint Information Value of Syntactic and Semantic Prominence for Subsequent Pronominal Reference

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Salience in Discourse: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2005     139 - 148  2005.10  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • The Phonological Optimization of Japanese Nicknames: Why kids don't sing 'Sachi-chan wa ne'

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Proceedings of Linguistics Society of Japan   131   228 - 233  2005.10  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Silence is Golden?

    Rose, Ralph L.

    TESOL Journal   8   35 - 35  1999.07  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

    DOI

  • A Look at lecture Discourse in the EFL Classroom

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Research Bulletin of Hiroshima Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College   21   41 - 67  1998.03

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Student-Produced Videos: Practical Tips for Memorable Productions

    Rose, Ralph L.

    TESOL Video News   7 ( 2 ) 3ff  1996

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Student-Produced Videos at Hiroshima Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Research Bulletin of Hiroshima Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College   19   23 - 36  1995.03

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

  • Video and the Boring Textbook

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Video Rising   6 ( 1 ) 6 - 8  1995

    Authorship：Lead author, Corresponding author

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Books and Other Publications

  • Academic Reading in Science and Engineering, Book 2 - Revised Edition

    ROSE, Ralph Leon( Part： Sole author)

    DTP Publishing  2020.09

  • Academic Reading in Science and Engineering, Book 1 - Revised Edition

    ROSE, Ralph Leon( Part： Sole author)

    DTP Publishing  2020.03

  • Proceedings of DiSS 2019, The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech

    Rose, Ralph L, EKLUND, Robert( Part： Joint editor)

    ELTE Eötvös Loránd University  2019.09

    DOI

  • Proceedings of DiSS 2017, Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech

    EKLUND, Robert, ROSE, Ralph Leon( Part： Joint editor)

    Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)  2017.08

  • Academic Reading in Science and Engineering, Book 2

    ROSE, Ralph Leon( Part： Sole author)

    DTP Publishing  2015.09 ISBN: 9784862115447

  • Academic Reading in Science and Engineering, Book 1

    ROSE, Ralph Leon( Part： Sole author)

    DTP Publishing  2015.03 ISBN: 9784862115263

  • Concept Building and Discussion - Applications

    Rose, Ralph, Anthony, Laurence( Part： Joint author)

    DTP Publishing  2009.09 ISBN: 9784862112309

  • Concept Building and Discussion - Foundations

    Anthony, Laurence, Rose, Ralph, Sheppard, Chris( Part： Joint author)

    DTP Publishing  2009.03 ISBN: 9784862111531

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Works

Presentations

  • Filled pauses in L1 Japanese and L2 English: Observations from a crosslinguistic speech corpus

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    LeCycl Workshop  LeCycl Research Group

    Presentation date： 2022.03

    Event date：
    2022.03
    　
    　

  • Fluidity: Real-time Feedback on Acoustic Measures of Second Language Speech Fluency

    Rose, Ralph L

    10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020  (Tokyo)  International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

    Presentation date： 2020.05

    Event date：
    2020.05
    　
    　

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    (Note: Due to Covid-19, this regular conference was converted to a virtual conference with on-line presentations.)

  • A Comparison of Filled Pauses in Scripted and Non-Scripted Spontaneous Speech

    Rose, Ralph L.

    The 3rd International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech  (Taipei, Taiwan)  Academia Sinica

    Presentation date： 2019.11

    Event date：
    2019.11
    　
    　

  • Fluidity: Developing second language fluency with real-time feedback during speech practice

    Rose, Ralph L

    SLaTE: 8th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education  (Graz, Austria)  Speech and Language Technologies in Education (SLaTE: ISCA special interest group))

    Presentation date： 2019.09

    Event date：
    2019.09
    　
    　

  • The structural signaling effect of silent and filled pauses

    Rose, Ralph L

    The 9th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS)  (Budapest, Hungary)  ELTE Eötvös Loránd University

    Presentation date： 2019.09

    Event date：
    2019.09
    　
    　

  • A crosslinguistic corpus study of silent and filled pauses: When do speakers use filled pauses to fill pauses?

    Rose, Ralph L, Watanabe, Michiko

    The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)  (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)  International Phonetic Association (IPA)

    Presentation date： 2019.08

    Event date：
    2019.08
    　
    　

  • The structural signalling effect of filled pauses during reading

    Rose, Ralph L

    CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference  (Boulder, Colorado, USA) 

    Presentation date： 2019.03

    Event date：
    2019.03
    　
    　

  • Differences in second language speech fluency ratings: Native versus nonnative listeners

    Rose, Ralph L

    Fluency & Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties  (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)  Université catholique de Louvain

    Presentation date： 2017.02

    Event date：
    2017.02
    　
    　

  • Temporal Variables in First and Second Language Speech and Perception of Fluency

    Rose, Ralph L

    18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences  (Glasgow, UK)  International Phonetic Association

    Presentation date： 2015.08

    Event date：
    2015.08
    　
    　

  • Crosslinguistic Corpus of Hesitation Phenomena: A corpus for investigating first and second language speech performance

    Rose, Ralph L.

    14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013)  (Lyon, France)  International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

    Presentation date： 2013.08

    Event date：
    2013.08
    　
    　

  • Filled Pauses in Writing: What can they Teach us about Speech?

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Production and Comprehension of Conversational Speech workshop  (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)  Radboud University Nijmegen

    Presentation date： 2011.12

    Event date：
    2011.12
    　
    　

  • Pronoun Resolution and The Influence of Syntactic and Semantic Information on Discourse Prominence

    Rose, Ralph L

    Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolution Colloquium (DAARC)  (Lagos, Portugal)  University of Lisbon

    Presentation date： 2007.03

    Event date：
    2007.03
    　
    　

  • Joint Information Value of Syntactic and Semantic Prominence for Subsequent Pronominal Reference

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse (MAD)  (Chorin, Germany)  Potsdam University

    Presentation date： 2005.10

    Event date：
    2005.10
    　
    　

  • Constructing policies on use of AI tools in language education: Considering ChatGPT as a collaborator

    Rose, Ralph L

    58th RELC International Conference  (SEAMEO Regional Language Center)  SEAMEO Regional Language Center

    Presentation date： 2024.03

    Event date：
    2024.03
    　
    　

  • Automated Generation of Multiple-Choice Cloze Questions for Assessing English Vocabulary Using GPT-turbo 3.5

    Wang, Qiao, Rose, Ralph L, Orita, Naho, Sugawara, Ayaka

    The Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages  (Waseda University) 

    Presentation date： 2023.12

    Event date：
    2023.12
    　
    　

  • Enhancing Vocabulary Learning Outcomes through Gamification: A Study of a Web-Based Vocabulary Application for Japanese University Students Learning the Academic Word List

    Wang, Qiao, Rose, Ralph L, Orita, Naho, Sugawara, Ayaka

    EUROCALL  (University of Iceland)  EUROCALL

    Presentation date： 2023.08

    Event date：
    2023.08
    　
    　

  • Ethical Considerations in the Use of Disfluencies in AI-Generated Speech

    Ralph L. Rose

    15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education  (Vienna House by Wyndham Diplomat Prague)  INSTICC

    Presentation date： 2023.04

    Event date：
    2023.04
    　
    　

  • Speech Repairs and Oral Fluency: What Can We Learn from L1 Speech Data?

    Rose, Ralph L

    57th RELC International Conference  (SEAMEO Regional English Language Center)  SEAMEO Regional English Language Center

    Presentation date： 2023.03

    Event date：
    2023.03
    　
    　

  • Evaluation Dataset of Multiple-Choice Cloze Items for Vocabulary Training and Testing

    Rose, Ralph L, Orita, Naho, Sugawara, Ayaka, Wang, Qiao

    ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC ’22 Adjunct)  (Cambridge)  Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) and Interntional Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)

    Presentation date： 2022.09

    Event date：
    2022.09
    　
    　

  • Issues and concerns in the automatic generation of vocabulary training and testing items

    Ralph L. Rose, Judy Wang, Naho Orita, Ayaka Sugawara

    JALTCALL  JALTCALL

    Presentation date： 2022.06

    Event date：
    2022.06
    　
    　

  • Variation in jitter, shimmer, and intensity of filled pauses and their contexts in native and nonnative speech,

    Rose, Ralph L

    The 10th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2021)  (St. Denis, France)  University 8 Paris - Vincennes

    Presentation date： 2021.08

    Event date：
    2021.08
    　
    　

  • Creating vocabulary list quizzes automatically with Word Quiz Constructor

    Rose, Ralph L

    EUROCALL Gathering 2020  (Online)  EUROCALL

    Presentation date： 2020.08

    Event date：
    2020.08
    　
    　

  • Automated generation of vocabulary quizzes en masse for large-scale testing

    Rose, Ralph L

    JALTCALL  (Online)  JALTCALL

    Presentation date： 2020.06

    Event date：
    2020.06
    　
    　

  • Automated real-time feedback on second language speech fluency

    Rose, Ralph L

    Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium  (Montreal, QC, Canada)  Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium

    Presentation date： 2019.05

    Event date：
    2019.05
    　
    　

  • Real-time feedback on speed fluency with Fluidity

    Rose, Ralph L

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference  (Shizuoka, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

    Presentation date： 2018.11

    Event date：
    2018.11
    　
    　

  • JESPR: An open-source library for web-based self-paced reading tasks

    Rose, Ralph L

    MAPLL × TCP × TL × TALK (MT3)  (Tokyo, Japan)  MAPLL, TCP, TL, TALK (joint)

    Presentation date： 2018.07

    Event date：
    2018.07
    　
    　

  • Interactions between linguistic complexity and fluency in a corpus of first and second language speech

    Rose, Ralph L

    American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)  (Chicago, IL, USA)  American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

    Presentation date： 2018.03

  • Pauses in the perception and production of fluent speech: The case of nonnative listeners and speakers

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    Télécom ParisTech Colloquium  (Paris, France)  Télécom ParisTech

    Presentation date： 2018.03

  • Towards providing real-time feedback on speech fluency for L2 learner development

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    University of Saarland Phonetics Colloquium  (Saarbrücken, Germany)  University of Saarland

    Presentation date： 2018.03

  • Crosslinguistic perception and production of filled and silent pauses and raising L2 learners’ awareness of them

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    Spoken Language Systems Lab (L²F) Colloquium  (Lisbon, Portugal)  Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC-ID)

    Presentation date： 2018.02

  • Crosslinguistic study of pauses in speech: L1 influence and L2 perception

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    LIMSI-CNRS Séminaire TLP  (Orsay, France)  Computer Science Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences

    Presentation date： 2017.12

  • Pauses in Second Language Production and Perception

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    Machine Translation (course)  (Lisbon, Portugal)  University of Lisbon

    Presentation date： 2017.11

  • Crosslinguistic study of pauses in speech: L1 influence, L2 performance, and pedagogical implications

    ROSE, Ralph L  [Invited]

    CECL Seminar series  (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)  Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL), Université catholique de Louvain

    Presentation date： 2017.10

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    The crosslinguistic study of speech phenomena is very common and often involves investigating native speakers of various languages to discover similarities and differences between their respective languages. When studying second language speech production, a native speaker group may be included as a reference. But much less often is native speech from second language speakers also gathered to provide a baseline (cf., Segalowitz 2010). In this talk, I will present data from a series of studies based on such a crosslinguistic corpus, containing first and second language speech samples from each participant. In particular, I will focus on the pausing patterns of these speakers to show how they use silent pause and filled pauses (e.g., ‘uh’/’um’) in their second language speech, and how we may better interpret this use in light of their first language speech behavior. Finally, I will discuss and demonstrate some practical approaches to the development of their L2 proficiency based on the findings.

  • Silent and filled pauses and speech planning in first and second language production

    Rose, Ralph L

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop  (Stockholm, Sweden)  KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    Presentation date： 2017.08

    Event date：
    2017.08
    　
    　

  • Pausing patterns in the first and second language speech of native Japanese speakers

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    University of Lisbon Linguistics Colloquium  (Lisbon, Portugal)  University of Lisbon

    Presentation date： 2017.05

  • Solving the challenge of locating, preparing, displaying, and reusing academic reading texts for learners with ADAPS

    Rose, Ralph L

    ELT Research in Action (ELTRIA) Conference  (Barcelona, Spain)  Escola d'Idiomes Moderns Universitat de Barcelona

    Presentation date： 2017.04

    Event date：
    2017.04
    　
    　

  • Realtime detection of filled pauses and temporal variables for fluency development

    Rose, Ralph L

    334th PSJ Research Meeting  (Jumonji University (Saitama, Japan))  Phonetic Society of Japan

    Presentation date： 2016.12

    Event date：
    2016.12
    　
    　

  • How can we determine, detect, and develop fluency in second language speech?

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    Spoken Language Systems Lab (L²F) Colloquium  (Lisbon, Portugal)  Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC-ID)

    Presentation date： 2016.03

  • Automatic Word Quiz Construction Using Regular and Simple English Wikipedia

    Rose, Ralph L

    International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED)  (Valencia, Spain)  International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED)

    Presentation date： 2016.03

    Event date：
    2016.03
    　
    　

  • Sensitivity of pausing strategies to utterance length: Evidence from a crosslinguistic speech corpus

    Rose, Ralph L

    8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC)  (Málaga, Spain)  Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO)

    Presentation date： 2016.03

    Event date：
    2016.03
    　
    　

  • Construction of a multimodal learner corpus of STEM student language production: A pilot study

    Rose, Ralph L, Masuda, Hinako

    8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC)  (Málaga, Spain)  Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics (AELINCO)

    Presentation date： 2016.03

    Event date：
    2016.03
    　
    　

  • Um and Uh as Differential Delay Markers: The Role of Contextual Factors

    Rose, Ralph L

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS)  (Edinburgh, UK)  The University of Edinburgh

    Presentation date： 2015.08

    Event date：
    2015.08
    　
    　

  • Understanding second language fluency development: Comparisons with first language speech and with listener perceptions

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    UM Psycholinguistics Lab Group  (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)  University of Michigan

    Presentation date： 2015.03

  • Fluidity: Real-time feedback for speaking fluency development

    Rose, Ralph L

    The English Language Education Society of Japan (JELES) Annual Meeting  (Tokyo, Japan)  The English Language Education Society of Japan (JELES)

    Presentation date： 2015.03

    Event date：
    2015.03
    　
    　

  • Some observations about Filled Pauses in English: A Multifaceted Approach

    Rose, Ralph L  [Invited]

    Workshop on Filled Pauses in Chinese, English, and Japanese  (Taipei, Taiwan)  Academia Sinica

    Presentation date： 2014.12

    Event date：
    2014.12
    　
    　

  • Practical and Theoretical Considerations in the Design of a System for Managing Peer Feedback on Oral Production

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) International Convention  (Hiroshima, Japan)  Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET)

    Presentation date： 2014.08

    Event date：
    2014.08
    　
    　

  • On the Relationship between First and Second Language Spontaneous Speech: The Role of Hesitation Phenomena

    Rose, Ralph L.

    International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA)  (Brisbane, Australia)  International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA)

    Presentation date： 2014.08

    Event date：
    2014.08
    　
    　

  • WQC: A tool for quick automatic word quiz construction

    Rose, Ralph L.

    International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA)  (Brisbane, Australia)  International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA)

    Presentation date： 2014.08

    Event date：
    2014.08
    　
    　

  • Addressing Challenges in a Large-Scale ELT Program: Learner Needs, Teaching Approaches, and Learner Assessment

    Rose, Ralph L., Katada, Fusa, Manalo, Emmanuel, Sheppard, Chris

    International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA)  (Brisbane, Australia)  International Association for Applied Linguistics (AILA)

    Presentation date： 2014.08

    Event date：
    2014.08
    　
    　

  • Automated vocabulary quiz creation using online and offline corpora

    Rose, Ralph L

    Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) conference  (Lancaster, UK)  University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language; Lancaster University

    Presentation date： 2014.07

    Event date：
    2014.07
    　
    　

  • Speech Hesitation Patterns in English by Native Speakers of Japanese

    Rose, Ralph L

    Workshop on Linguistic Analyses of Foreign Language Learning: Automatization in Real-Time Comprehension and Production  (Tokyo, Japan)  Joint Workshops on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP)

    Presentation date： 2013.12

    Event date：
    2013.12
    　
    　

  • Investigating the Relationship between First Language Speech and Second Language Fluency Development

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Experimental Linguistics Talks – Utrecht (EliTU)  (Utrecht, The Netherlands)  Utrecht University

    Presentation date： 2013.03

    Event date：
    2013.03
    　
    　

  • The Developmental Trajectory of Second Language Learners' Use of Hesitation Phenomena

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Symposium on Contemporary Speech Habits and Pronunciation Patterns (SJUSK)  (Copenhagen, Denmark)  Copenhagen Business School

    Presentation date： 2013.03

    Event date：
    2013.03
    　
    　

  • Hesitation Phenomena and Fluency in Second Language Development

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Japanese Association of Educational Psychology (JAEP)  (Naha, Okinawa, Japan)  Japanese Association of Educational Psychology (JAEP)

    Presentation date： 2012.11

    Event date：
    2012.11
    　
    　

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    In Manalo, E., Sheppard, C., Rose, R., and Katada, F. (Contributors). 「高等教育における学生のコミュニケーション能力開発を巡る重要課題」 [Important issues concerning the communication skills development of students in higher education] symposium

  • An Evaluation of Hesitation Phenomena as Measures of Second Language Proficiency and Fluency

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Second Language Research Forum (SLRF)  (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)  Carnegie-Mellon University

    Presentation date： 2012.10

    Event date：
    2012.10
    　
    　

  • Hesitation Phenomena, L2 Proficiency, and Fluency

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference  (Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

    Presentation date： 2012.10

    Event date：
    2012.10
    　
    　

  • On the lexical status of filled pauses: Seeing 'uh' and 'um' as words

    Rose, Ralph L.

    International Workshop on Language Production (IWOLP)  (New York City, NY, USA)  New York University

    Presentation date： 2012.07

    Event date：
    2012.07
    　
    　

  • Hesitation Phenomena in English by Japanese Speakers: Preliminary Results from a Cross-linguistic Speech Corpus

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics (GURT)  (Washington D.C., USA)  Georgetown University

    Presentation date： 2012.03

    Event date：
    2012.03
    　
    　

  • Hesitation Phenomena and Second Language Development

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Linguistics Colloquium  (Fairfax, VA, USA)  George Mason University Linguistics Club

    Presentation date： 2012.03

    Event date：
    2012.03
    　
    　

  • Investigating the Relationship between Hesitation Phenomena and L2 Accentedness

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Accents  (Łódź, Poland)  University of Łódź

    Presentation date： 2011.12

    Event date：
    2011.12
    　
    　

  • Self-assessment in Pronunciation Development

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Annual Conference  (Nagoya, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT

    Presentation date： 2010.11

    Event date：
    2010.11
    　
    　

  • Are Filled Pauses Meaningless? Uh, no.

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Department of English, University of Kitakyushu  (Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan)  University of Kitakyushu

    Presentation date： 2010.11

    Event date：
    2010.11
    　
    　

  • Accommodating Learning Styles: An EFL Pronunciation Course for Science and Engineering Students

    Rose, Ralph L.

    International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC)  (Enschede, The Netherlands)  IEEE Professional Communication Society; University of Twente

    Presentation date： 2010.07

    Event date：
    2010.07
    　
    　

  • Autonomy in External Learning: Developing Learners' Ability to Choose and Use Study Materials

    Rose, Ralph L.

    International Language Association ICC Annual Conference  (Hamburg, Germany)  International Language Association

    Presentation date： 2010.03

    Event date：
    2010.03
    　
    　

  • Pronunciation Improvement for Science and Engineering Students: Promoting Autonomy in External Learning

    Rose, Ralph L.

    IEEE Professional Communication Society, Japan Chapter Annual Conference  (Tokyo, Japan)  IEEE Professional Communication Society, Japan Chapter

    Presentation date： 2009.12

    Event date：
    2009.12
    　
    　

  • What is a filled pause?

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Tricks Conference  (Tokyo, Japan)  Organization of Tokyo-area science students

    Presentation date： 2009.12

    Event date：
    2009.12
    　
    　

  • The Information Value of Some Hesitation Phenomena: Filled Pauses, Lengthenings, and Entropy Reduction

    Rose, Ralph L.

    International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS)  (Saitama Prefecture, Japan)  Japanese Society for Language Sciences

    Presentation date： 2009.07

    Event date：
    2009.07
    　
    　

  • Feedbacker: A peer feedback management system for presentation instruction

    Rose, Ralph L.

    International Language Association ICC Annual Conference  (Florence, Italy)  International Language Association

    Presentation date： 2009.03

    Event date：
    2009.03
    　
    　

  • Why 'What do you like sports?': Evidence for Shallow Structures

    Rose, Ralph L., Amano, Natsuki

    International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS)  (Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)  Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS)

    Presentation date： 2008.07

    Event date：
    2008.07
    　
    　

  • Filled Pauses in Language Teaching: Why and How

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS)  (Seville, Spain)  Pablo de Olavide University

    Presentation date： 2008.02

    Event date：
    2008.02
    　
    　

  • Silence is NOT Golden

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Maebashi Chamber of Commerce and Industry Public Lecture Series  (Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan)  Maebashi Chamber of Commerce and Industry

    Presentation date： 2007.09

    Event date：
    2007.09
    　
    　

  • ‘This text is incoherent!’: How people understand discourse

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Linguistics colloquium  (Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan)  Gunma University

    Presentation date： 2007.07

    Event date：
    2007.07
    　
    　

  • Evidence for Gradient Salience: What Happens with Competing Nonsalient Referents during Pronoun Resolution

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Australasian Language Technology Workshop  (Sydney, Australia)  University of Sydney

    Presentation date： 2006.11

    Event date：
    2006.11
    -
    2006.12

  • On-line Automatic Feedback in Second-language Pronunciation Development

    Rose, Ralph L.

    HCSNet SummerFest  (Sydney, Australia)  The Human Communication Science Network (HCSNet)

    Presentation date： 2006.11

    Event date：
    2006.11
    -
    2006.12

  • The Phonological Optimization of Japanese Nicknames: Why kids don't sing 'Sachi-chan wa ne'

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Linguistic Society of Japan Annual Meeting  (Hiroshima, Japan)  Linguistic Society of Japan

    Presentation date： 2005.11

    Event date：
    2005.11
    　
    　

  • Text Structure: Focus of Attention and Pronouns

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference  (Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

    Presentation date： 2004.11

    Event date：
    2004.11
    　
    　

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    Psycholinguistic research shows that in a text, focus of attention shifts and unnatural pronoun use require greater cognitive effort for readers/listeners to process. The presenter will extend the Gricean (1975) concept of cooperation with such psycholinguistic evidence to outline a compact model of how speakers/writers cooperatively maintain the focus of attention across utterances. The presentation will conclude with suggestions for classroom activities designed to raise learners' awareness of these features of discourse competence.

  • The Relative Contribution of Syntactic and Semantic Prominence in Pronoun Reference Resolution

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Midwest Computational Linguistics Conference  (Bloomington, Indiana, USA)  Indiana University

    Presentation date： 2004.06

    Event date：
    2004.06
    　
    　

  • Syntactic and Semantic Prominence in Pronoun Resolution

    Rose, Ralph L.

    CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing  (College Park, Maryland, USA)  University of Maryland

    Presentation date： 2004.03

    Event date：
    2004.03
    　
    　

  • Discourse Coherence: How do speakers show and hearers decide what the center of attention is?

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Language colloquium  (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan)  University of Aizu

    Presentation date： 2003.12

    Event date：
    2003.12
    　
    　

  • Discourse Salience and Movement Constructions

    Rose, Ralph L.

    CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing  (New York City, NY, USA)  City University of New York (CUNY)

    Presentation date： 2002.03

    Event date：
    2002.03
    　
    　

  • Anarez: A C++ Implementation of an Anaphora Resolution Algorithm

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Linguistics 346 "Computational Linguistics"  (Evanston, Illinois, USA)  Northwestern University

    Presentation date： 2001.02

    Event date：
    2001.02
    　
    　

    　View Summary

    (Research presentation to "Computational Linguistics" course)

  • Filled Pauses in the, uh, ELT Classroom

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Hiroshima Chapter Meeting  (Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Hiroshima Chapter

    Presentation date： 1998.05

    Event date：
    1998.05
    　
    　

  • Student-Produced Videos

    Rose, Ralph L.

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) International Conference  (Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)

    Presentation date： 1995.11

    Event date：
    1995.11
    　
    　

  • Student-Produced Videos

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Hiroshima Chapter Meeting  (Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Hiroshima Chapter

    Presentation date： 1994.07

    Event date：
    1994.07
    　
    　

  • Getting Students to Talk when the Teacher’s not Around

    Rose, Ralph L.  [Invited]

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Hiroshima Chapter Meeting  (Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)  Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) Hiroshima Chapter

    Presentation date： 1992.10

    Event date：
    1992.10
    　
    　

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Research Projects

  • Automatic generation of vocabulary quiz items for large-scale testing

    Waseda University  Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2023.04
    -
    2024.03
     

    Ralph L. Rose, Naho Orita, Ayaka Sugawara, Judy Wang

  • The role of filled pauses and other disfluencies as facilitative devices for learning

    Waseda University  Waseda University Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2022.04
    -
    2023.03
     

  • Developing gold standard data for Vocabulary Training and Testing

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2021.07
    -
    2022.03
     

    Ralph L. Rose, Naho Orita, Ayaka Sugawara, Judy Wang

  • Comparative study of disfluencies in a Japanese-English parallel corpus

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Project Year :

    2018.04
    -
    2021.03
     

    Watanabe, Michiko, Rose, Ralph L.

  • Modeling speech fluency for open-source e-learning application development

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2019.07
    -
    2020.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

  • Converting an automatic word quiz creation application into an open-source tool

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2019.04
    -
    2020.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

  • Reader’s inferences from filled pauses in written texts

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2018.04
    -
    2019.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

  • Providing automatic realtime feedback on temporal parameters of speech for second language fluency development

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2017.04
    -
    2018.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

  • Relationship between Silent and Filled Pauses and Syntactic Structure in Second Language Use

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Project Year :

    2015.04
    -
    2018.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L., Watanabe, Michiko, Sakai, Hiromu

  • Examination of the phonetic features of filled pauses through analysis of spontaneous speech corpora

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    Project Year :

    2014.04
    -
    2017.03
     

    Maekawa, Kikuo, Mori, Hiroki, Rose, Ralph L., Kawahara Hideki, Watanabe, Michiko

  • The production and perception of hesitation phenomena in native spoken and written English

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2015.04
    -
    2016.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

  • Mass production of vocabulary knowledge quizzes for large-scale second language education

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2014.04
    -
    2015.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

  • Hesitation Phenomena in Second Language Learning (Kaken)

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Project Year :

    2012.04
    -
    2015.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

  • Hesitation Phenomena in Second Language Learning (Waseda)

    Waseda University  Grant for Special Research Projects

    Project Year :

    2011.07
    -
    2012.03
     

    Rose, Ralph L.

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Syllabus

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Teaching Experience

  • Academic Reading 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2018.04
    -
    Now
     

  • Advanced Technical Presentation

    Waseda University  

    2018.04
    -
    Now
     

  • Special Topics in Functional English (Spoken fluency measurement and development)

    Waseda University  

    2018.04
    -
    2020.03
     

  • Concept Building and Discussion 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2015.04
    -
    2016.03
     

  • Special Topics in Functional English (The Sound System of English)

    Waseda University  

    2009.04
    -
    2013.03
     

  • Academic Lecture Comprehension 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2020.04
    -
    Now
     

  • Special Topics in Functional English (Spoken fluency measurement and development)

    Waseda University  

    2016.04
    -
    2017.03
     

  • Integrated Course L (Reading)

    The University of Tokyo  

    2015.04
    -
    2016.03
     

  • Advanced Technical Reading and Writing 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2014.04
    -
    2016.03
     

  • Academic Reading 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2013.04
    -
    2016.03
     

  • Advanced Technical Presentation

    Waseda University  

    2011.04
    -
    2016.03
     

  • English 2C (Comprehension)

    The University of Tokyo  

    2009.04
    -
    2016.03
     

  • English 2R (Reading)

    The University of Tokyo  

    2013.04
    -
    2015.03
     

  • English 2P (Presentation)

    The University of Tokyo  

    2007.04
    -
    2015.03
     

  • Concept Building and Discussion 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2008.04
    -
    2014.03
     

  • Technical Presentation

    Waseda University  

    2009.04
    -
    2011.03
     

  • Academic Reading 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2008.04
    -
    2009.03
     

  • Communication Strategies 1, 2

    Waseda University  

    2008.04
    -
    2009.03
     

  • Structure of English: Phonetics and Phonology

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2006.04
    -
    2008.04
     

  • Essay Writing 1, 2

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2007.04
    -
    2008.03
     

  • Psycholinguistics Seminar 1, 2

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2007.04
    -
    2008.03
     

  • Fundamentals of English Pronunciation

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2006.04
    -
    2008.03
     

  • Language and mind

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2006.04
    -
    2008.03
     

  • Academic English 1, 2

    International University of Japan  

    2004.09
    -
    2008.03
     

  • Fundamentals of Academic Communication

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2005.04
    -
    2007.03
     

  • Listening and Note-taking

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2005.04
    -
    2007.03
     

  • Structure of English

    Gunma Prefectural Women's University  

    2005.04
    -
    2007.03
     

  • Language and Society (Linguistics 220)

    Waseda University  

    2003.04
    -
    2006.06
     

  • Test of Spoken English (TSE) Workshop

    Northwestern University  

    2001.09
    -
    2004.12
     

  • English intensive course (International Summer Institute)

    Northwestern University  

    2001.06
    -
    2001.08
     

  • Written English for Nonnative Speakers (Linguistics 381)

    Northwestern University  

    2001.04
    -
    2001.06
     

  • Spoken English for Nonnative Speakers (Linguistics 380)

    Northwestern University  

    2000.09
    -
    2001.03
     

  • Oral III

    Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College  

    1997.04
    -
    1999.03
     

  • Composition II

    Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College  

    1996.04
    -
    1999.03
     

  • Oral II

    Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College  

    1994.04
    -
    1999.03
     

  • Oral I

    Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College  

    1994.04
    -
    1999.03
     

  • General subjects omnibus course

    Notre Dame Seishin Women's Junior College  

    1994.04
    -
    1997.03
     

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Academic Activities

  • Reviewer, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) annual conference (INTERSPEECH)

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)  

    2018
    -
    Now

  • Proceedings Supervising Editor

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop  

    2018.12
    -
    2019.09

  • Reviewer, Language and Speech

    Peer review

    SAGE Publishing  

    2018
    -
    Now

  • Reviewer, Beszédtudomány – Speech science

    Peer review

    Hungarian Academy of Sciences  

    2020
    　
    　

  • Reviewer, Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop  

    2019
    　
    　

  • Reviewer, International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS)

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS)  

    2019
    　
    　

  • Reviewer, International Congress for Phonetic Sciences

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    International Phonetic Assocation  

    2019
    　
    　

  • Reviewer, Fluency and Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Presses universitaires de Louvain  

    2018
    　
    　

  • Proceedings Co-editor

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop  

    2017.06
    -
    2017.08

  • Reviewer, Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop  

    2017.05
    -
    2017.06

  • Reviewer, Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    日本音声学会  

    2017
    　
    　

  • Reviewer, International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

    Peer review

    John Benjamins Publishing Company  

    2016
    　
    　

  • Co-organizer, JALT CUE ESP Symposium

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) College and University Educators (CUE) Special Interest Group   日本国東京都

    2014.03
    -
    2014.08

  • Reviewer for Transactions on Professional Communication

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    IEEE Professional Communication Society  

    2008
    -
    2012

  • Proceedings Co-editor

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech and Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech Joint Workshop  

    2010.05
    　
    　

  • Reviewer, Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech and Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech Joint Workshop (DiSS-LPSS 2010)

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech and Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech Joint Workshop  

    2010
    　
    　

  • Reviewer for Studies in Language Sciences

    Academic society, research group, etc.

    言語科学会  

    2006
    -
    2010

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  • 第2言語習得における躊躇現象

    2017.04
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    2018.03

    ポルトガル   INESC-ID

    米国   Spring Arbor University

    フランス   LIMSI-CNRS

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  • Faculty of Science and Engineering   Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

Research Institute

  • 2022
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    2024

    Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering   Concurrent Researcher

Internal Special Research Projects

  • Automatic generation of vocabulary quiz items for large-scale testing

    2023   折田 奈甫, 菅原 彩加, ワン チャオ

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    Work on the project during AY2023 proceeded in two main areas. The first area built on work previously done in an AY2021 Tokutei Kadai project in which we asked language teaching experts to review a large set of automatically generated multiple-choice cloze vocabulary quiz questions and check the questions for well-formedness, and then to revise items that were deemed not well-formed. Due to constraints at the time, only about half of the 5,000 items were checked. In this year, the remainder of the set was checked to form a large dataset. This is a unique dataset in the field in that it is not simply a set of well-formed items, but rather contains expert judgments on what is and is not well-formed. This information is extremely useful for machine learning approaches to the automatic generation of these vocabulary questions. In fact, the dataset is already being used in a collaborative effort together with researchers at the Intelligent Media Processing Group at Osaka Metropolitan University.The second main area of work has been on building a new generator, capitalizing on the recent advances in the generative capabilities of large language models, particularly OpenAI’s GPT 3.5-turbo. A new generator has been developed in the Python language and has been published to GitHub for public dissemination and sharing as the repository “VocQGen” (vocabulary quiz generator). VocQGen takes advantage of GPT 3.5-turbo and various Python libraries to control part-of-speech correspondence in order to generate multiple-choice cloze vocabulary questions. Initial results were immediately very promising showing in a small-scale investigation that well over 90% of the items were judged to be well-formed and suitable for use with our target learners (university students).Further developments were made using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to advance VocQGen’s generative capability. At the end of the project year, generated items were submitted to a large-scale evaluation with 68 university students (our target users) and 8 teachers (as language testing experts). The results of this evaluation are still being analyzed, but preliminary results suggest that VocQGen generates items that are more reliable than ones that were produced manually (by an experienced language teacher for actual use in testing).VocQGen is publicly available via GitHub and other researchers as well as developers are welcome to make use of it. Future work involves providing a web interface such that teachers (for example) could use it to quickly generate vocabulary quizzes for their students.

  • The role of filled pauses and other disfluencies as facilitative devices for learning

    2022  

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    This research focuses on the novel question of whether filled pauses and other disfluencies might be usefully inserted into AI-generated speech in educational contexts and thereby serve a facilitative function for learning. This work began by looking closely at the ethics of AI and took the current consensus of this area – that AI ethics revolve around five principles: beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and explicability – in order to develop and propose a useful tool for specifically evaluating the use of disfluencies in AI-generated speech for learning contexts. This tool is called the Disfluency Instrumentality Audit (DIA) and can be used by system designers and other researchers to evaluate whether the systems they are designing meet basic ethical standards.In further work related to this research, two pilot experiments were carried out. One looked at whether deep learning systems (e.g., OpenAI’s chatGPT) actually emulate some of the facilitative effects often observed in previous research on disfluencies. A second pilot experiment was designed to look at whether disfluencies may facilitate a listener’s comprehension of texts. Overall, the work on this project suggests that the use of disfluencies in AI-generated speech for learning may be both productive and ethical.

  • Hesitation phenomena and disfluencies in artificial speech generation

    2021  

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    Artificial speech generation has existed for many decades and recent applications produce quite convincing results as evidenced by a number of widely known commercial applications. However, only recently have some of these applications begun to exhibit typical signs of spontaneous speech with the inclusion of disfluencies, despite the fact that these applications are most definitely NOT producing spontaneous speech. While the idea of inserting disfluencies has been tested in some ways for the past decade, there is not much controlled investigation of this trend. A corpus study was performed to look at patterns of disfluency use in a cross-linguistic manner. The experiment used the Crosslinguistic Corpus of Hesitation Phenomena (Rose, 2013) and extracted a wide variety of acoustic features of disfluencies exhibited in this speech corpus. The acoustic information was processed through a clustering algorithm to find common disfluency trends among sub-groups of the 35 speakers in the corpus. Surprisingly, the clustering method yielded a large number of groupings, suggesting that speakers are quite unique in their disfluency methods and cannot be easily categorized. One conclusion is that “mean” disfluency trends might be used in generated speech, for example as “nudges” to help learners achieve certain learning outcomes more readily.

  • Constructing a corpus for the study of simulated filled pauses

    2021  

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    When actors and voice artists speak within the context of a dramatic presentation, they may use disfluencies to make their speech sound more authentically spontaneous. However, there has been little study of whether these simulated disfluencies match patterns produced during truly spontaneous (that is, unscripted and unprepared) speech. The aim of this project was to evaluate this in a mini corpus of film and television dramas, as well as in elicitation from professional voice actors. A small corpus of 10 films and television shows was assembled, comprising a total of 122 filled pauses. The relatively small number means that conclusions are tentative, but the use of filled pauses seemed to fit typical patterns of use. They were more frequent at major than minor discourse boundaries, and uh was more frequent than um. An exception was that they did not necessarily precede words of low contextual probability, as has been previously shown in spontaneous speech. Two professional voice actors were hired to re-produce two different texts in three manners: scripted speech, scripted speech with simulated disfluency, and original spontaneous paraphrase. Two voice actors made recordings and results showed that the simulated disfluency was quite different from their actual disfluency.

  • Developing gold standard data for Vocabulary Training and Testing

    2021   折田　奈甫, 菅原　彩加, ワン　チャオ

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    We established three main aims during the year: to create a “gold standard” set of testing items, to develop a mock-up application for testing purposes, and to carry out a pilot investigation involving the gold standard items and the mock-up application. The gold standard items focused on creating a large number of multiple choice cloze vocabulary test items based on the General Service List and the Academic Word List. 5,000 items were generated automatically and then evaluated and corrected by experienced language teachers. In the end 2,786 items were retained in the gold standard set. Concurrently, an on-line vocabulary training and testing application was developed. Learners can choose a specific GSL or AWL sublist to focus on and receive practice items or take a short test occasionally to evaluate their knowledge of a specific sublist. Finally, a pilot experiment was carried out with 12 student participants. Over a two-week period, the participants were free to use the vocabulary application at their own pace, but with a target to study vocabulary a total of about 6 hours, spread out evenly across the time. Pre- and post-test results showed a significant gain in vocabulary knowledge over the two-week period.

  • Converting an automatic word quiz creation application into an open-source tool

    2020  

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    Word Quiz Constructor (WQC: Rose 2014) is a Java console application designed to automatically generate vocabulary quizzes with questions testing learners’ knowledge of Academic Word List (AWL: Coxhead 2000) words. This project’s aim was to prepare the project for public distribution in two ways: (1) Develop the application for greater user customizability while evaluating its custom features to suggest optimal settings for different scenarios and (2) converting the application to a publicly distributable archive. For the development aim, WQC was further implemented with the capability to make use of different readability algorithms which are useful for controlling the difficulty level of stem sentences in cloze questions. It was also further implemented to make use of different frequency lists for checking the frequency of tri-gram sequences surrounding target words. The optimal configuration overall was found to be that using the Linsear Write readability algorithm with the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus frequency list and drawing carrier sentences from Simple English Wikipedia. The Coronavirus situation pressed WQC into full-time service in the English program with the creation of question banks. Results showed good discrimination ability of the questions produced. Finally, the second aim was achieved with the publication of a distributable application on the Roselab web site (author’s university web page).

  • Modeling speech fluency for open-source e-learning application development

    2019   Sheppard, Chris, Kinoshita, Naoko, Shinohara, Yasuaki, Sagisaka, Yoshiori, Kondo, Mariko, Sun, Yue

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    This project aims to develop a shareable model of second language speech fluency that can be utilized by both language teaching practitioners as well as language learning technology engineers and programmers. This year’s efforts were focused on two main goals:  first, continued development and validation of a speaking practice application called Fluidity that embodies such a model; and second, the organization of an exchange of ideas regarding fluency modeling for theoretical and practical purposes. On the first goal, the Fluidity application detection mechanisms were subjected to some acoustic validation tests to gauge how accurately the speech, pause, and syllable detection mechanisms work. The results of these tests were quite positive, showing that Fluidity performs better than a widely-used script based on the Praat acoustic phonetics analysis tool. These results are to be published in the proceedings of the annual Speech Prosody conference. On the second goal, informal discussions with the research collaborators generated interesting ideas about fluency modeling including a debate about how to make such modeling useful to such diverse fields as pedagogy and engineering. Unfortunately, a plan to host a public meeting to discuss these topics could not be carried out due to the COVID-19 situation.

  • Readers' inferences from filled pauses in written texts

    2018  

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    In work by Bailey and Ferreira (2003), listeners who heard filled pause disfluencies (i.e., “uh uh”) at structural non-boundary locations (e.g., (2) below) judged the sentence stimuli as ungrammatical more often than when the disfluency was at (or very near to) a boundary location (e.g., (1) below). They interpreted this as evidence of a structural signalling effect of filled pauses.(1) [While [the man hunted] the uh uh deer ran into the woods].(2) [While [the man hunted] the deer uh uh ran into the woods].With the rapid rise of social media, filled pauses are being increasingly observed even in print material like blogs and messaging. Therefore, it is an open question whether printed filled pauses may have comparable effects on readers. The present work seeks to examine whether the structural signalling effect extends to the reading of written stimuli. Similar to the previous work, readers judged sentences like (2) as ungrammatical more often. Furthermore, in a self-paced reading paradigm, participants’ reading times were slower in the first three regions (words) after a printed disfluency in a nonboundary location. This suggests the effect is robust across perceptual paradigms.This research was conducted via Amazon Mechanical Turk and the results were reported at the CUNY 2019 Human Sentence Processing Conference.

  • Providing automatic realtime feedback on temporal parameters of speech for second language fluency development

    2017  

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    This research project focused on the development and user testing of a computer application called Fluidity which is designed to help second language learners develop their speed fluency by giving real-time feedback on fluency-related features of speechin a manner that resembles human-human communication.At first, several speech researchers in Lisbon, Portugal who are experts in second language fluency and digital signal processing were consulted. Their advice included detailed recommendations about application design and audio libraries for signal processing.Thereafter, Fluidity was completely reprogrammed. Two main practice functions were implemented: scripted speech and free speech practice. Also, a virtual character named Fludie was added, which gives feedback to the learner via facial expressions. Also implemented were different visualizations of the learner's speech for review purposes.Finally, Fluidity underwent user testing by a number of second language learners in Portugal, France, and the United States. Afterward, each user completed a survey about their experience. Responses to Fluidity were very positive, with many users saying they would likely use it for their own language learning purposes.The new version of Fluidity and results of user testing were presented to various professional audiences in Portugal, France, Germany, Belgium, and the United States, who gave expert suggestions for further development. It is anticipated that an alpha version of the application will be released during AY2018.

  • The production and perception of hesitation phenomena in native spoken and written English

    2015  

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    Many if not most language perception phenomena have listening and reading correlates in psycholinguistic experimentation. In the perception of filled pauses (e.g., uh/um in English, e-to/ano in Japanese), experimental work has thus far looked only at filled pauses in speech showing that hearers process incoming speech differently when there are filled pauses. The present research therefore was a pilot experiment which sought to examine whether analogous results could be obtained in reading.The experiment used a self-paced reading task design with three syntactic configurations: subordinate clauses, coordinate clauses, and nouns of high contextual probability. The sentences were presented on scren in either a disfluent (with a filled pause) or fluent condition. The prediction was that the disfluent condition should generate processing difficulty and hence longer reading times.Results (N=22 native English speakers) showed that longer reading times were obtained in the disfluent condition in the region of interest (immediately after the filled pause). The results do not quite reach statistical significance, however, using mixed-effects modeling with fluency as a fixed effect and users and stimuli as random effects.  Future work will seek to increase the number of participants to that comparable to other studies of similar design.

  • 大規模第2言語教育用語彙認識クイズのマスプロダクション

    2014  

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    The primary purpose of this project was to develop and report on an application which is designed to produce vocabulary tests en masse for large-scale English teaching programs. The application, called Word Quiz Creator (WQC), is a Java application that takes selected sublists of the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000) and creates multiple-choice fill-in-the-blank quiz items by drawing sample sentences from on-line and off-line corpora.In a useability experiment, items created by WQC were compared to items created manually by an experienced test creator. The items were evaluated by experienced teachers as well as tested on student volunteers in an experimental setting.  Results showed generally that WQC created items that were nearly on a par with the manually-produced items.A description of WQC and the results of these useability experiments were reported at two different conferences during the summer of 2014. Valuable feedback was obtained from other researchers on how to improve the performance of WQC and several teacher practitioners (particularly those working at institutes with large-scale language programs) expressed an interest in downloading the application for their own use. A distribution version of WQC for download and use by researchers and teachers is now in preparation.

  • 第二言語習得における躊躇現象

    2011  

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    One of the many linguistic needs of second language learners is to learn the temporal patterns of the target language. That is, in addition to developing grammatical accuracy and broad lexical knowledge, learners must learn how and when to pause appropriately and in a native-like manner in order to fully master their second language productive skills. Hesitation phenomena --- including silent pauses, filled pauses (uh, um), repairs, repeats, lengthenings, and so on --- are a key overt feature of speech and can provide cues to a learner's mastery of the temporal patterns of a target language. Thus, a close examination of HP is useful to understand how learners develop and where they need to develop.This research project has therefore focused on the creation, annotation, and analysis of a corpus of first and second language speech called the Crosslinguistic Corpus of Hesitation Phenomena (CCHP) as part of a larger effort to understand the second language learner's developmental process. In principle, the project was performed as a pilot project in order to test the elicitation methods, annotation procedures, and overall design of the corpus in preparation for a larger scale corpus-building effort. However, even with its small-scale nature, the CCHP has yielded some interesting and novel findings.The CCHP currently consists of elicited recordings from ten native speakers of Japanese. Recordings were elicited in their native language (L1) as well as in a second language (L2), English. Participants were asked to perform parallel elicitation tasks in each language, varying from read speech to spontanous speech. Samples from these recordings were transcribed and annotated with respect to word and pause intervals and hesitation phenomena. Acoustic measurements of duration and first and second formant (F1,F2) values of filled pauses were also taken. Finally, native English speakers (experienced English as a foreign language teachers) rated the English speech samples for degree of native/nonnative accent and fluency.Analysis of the corpus data shows that the corpus is largely consistent with previous research of a similar nature. Results show that several features correlate well with second language proficiency. These are described one by one in greater detail in the following paragraphs.Speech rate refers to the number of tokens (i.e., words) per minute. Previous research shows that as higher level L2 speakers have a higher speech rate in their L2. The results from the CCHP are consistent with this, yet suggest that this is only part of the story: Higher level L2 speakers also have a higher speech rate in their L1. This result further suggests that speech rate ― taken by many as an indicator of L2 proficiency ― is not, in fact, a reliable indicator. Or, if it is, it is a predictor in a more determinative sense: people who naturally speak faster are more likely to achieve a higher L2 proficiency level.Token duration refers to the time duration of speakers' utterance of individual tokens in the corpus. The mean token duration shows a pattern that is consistent with previous work: Higher proficiency L2 speakers have a shorter mean token duration that lower proficiency L2 speakers. Furthermore, results show that the mean token duration does not vary when speaking in L1. Thus, unlike speech rate above, token duration can be seen as a reliable indicator of L2 proficiency., as distinct from L1 performance characteristics.Silent pause rate refers to the number of silent pauses which occur per 100 tokens. In previous research, silent pause rate has been observed to correlate well with L2 proficiency: Higher-level L2 speakers have a lower silent pause rate than lower-level speakers. The corpus in the present project confirms this result, and further shows that it is independent of L1 performance characteristics.Silent pause duration refers to the time duration of individual silent pauses. The corpus results are consistent with previous research showing that higher-level L2 speakers have a shorter mean silent pause duration, but the results further suggest that this not independent of L1 performance characteristics. That is, just like for speech rate above, results suggest that those who pause shorter in L1 are also those who pause shorter in L2.Filled pause rate refers to number of filled pauses ('uh'/'um' in English, 'e-(to)'/'ano'/'n' in Japanese) per 100 tokens. The results of the corpus are consistent with most previous research showing no difference in mean filled pause rate across L1 or L2. Filled pause rate is not a reliable indicator of L2 proficiency at all.Filled pause duration refers to the time duration of filled pauses. Previous work has not looked at this feature of speech closely. In the current project, results show that higher-level L2 speakers use shorter filled pauses than lower-level speakers. Furthermore, this trend is independent of L1 speaker performance characteristics. Hence, the results pattern like those of token duration and silent pause rate, above.Formant measurements of the filled pause vowels showed that low-level learners have an L2 vowel height that is close to the typical L1 vowel (/E/) and that as L2 proficiency gets higher, the L2 vowel height gets lower and closer to that of the typical L2 vowel (/@/). However, this same trend was also observed in L1, suggesting a backward influence of L2 filled pause vowels on L1 filled pause production. In contrast, vowel backness did not show the same trend: Higher-level L2 speakers use a more centralized vowel than lower-level speakers ― more back than the typical L1 vowel. Thus, filled pause vowel backness is a better predictor of L2 proficiency than vowel height. These results parallel other results from the corpus that relate speakers' production to accent ratings. Speakers who consistently lowered their vowels were judged more native-like (i.e., closer to L2 target pronunciation) than those who consistently backed their vowels.Repair rate refers to the number of repairs (repeats and self-corrections) that occur per 100 tokens. The corpus results here show merely that speakers have a higher repair rate when speaking in their L2 than in their L1. This is consistent across L2 proficiency levels.Repair duration refers the the length in tokens of repair sequences. Similar to the results for repair rate, speakers use longer repair sequences in their L2 than in their L1. However, this is consistent across L2 proficiency levels.These various findings are consistent with previous work showing the validity of the CCHP and the method used to obtain and annotate it. Furthermore, the findings that speech rate and silent pause duration are not strong predictors of L2 proficiency, as well as the findings that filled pause duration and filled pause vowel height are predictors of L2 proficiency are novel findings that have implications for how such things as fluency and accent are measured.

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