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Title:		What is “natural” speech? Comparing free narratives and Frog stories in Indonesia
Bibliographic Citation:		Klamer, Marian, Moro, Francesca R.; 2020-05; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24921.
Creator:		Klamer, Marian
		Moro, Francesca R.
Date (W3CDTF):		2020-05
Description:		While there is overall consensus that narratives obtained by means of visual stimuli contain less natural language than free narratives, it has been less clear how the naturalness of a narrative can be measured in a crosslinguistically meaningful way. Here this question is addressed by studying the differences between free narratives and narratives elicited using the Frog story in two languages of eastern Indonesia, Alorese (Austronesian) and Teiwa (Papuan). Both these languages are not commonly written, and belong to families that are typologically distinct. We compare eight speakers telling free narratives and Frog stories, investigating the lexical density (noun-pronoun ratio, noun-clause ratio, noun-verb ratio), narrative style (the use of direct speech reports and tail-head linkage), as well as speech rate. We find significant differences between free and prompted narratives along these three dimensions, and suggest that they can be used to measure the naturalness of speech in oral narratives more generally.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		76 pages
Identifier:		Klamer, Marian & Francesca R. Moro. 2020. What is “natural” speech? Comparing free narratives and Frog stories in Indonesia. Language Documentation & Conservation 14: 238-313.
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24921
Publisher:		University of Hawaii Press
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
		Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
		http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Subject:		natural speech
		Frog story
		narrative
		lexical density
		tail-head linkage
		speech rate
		Austronesian languages
		Papuan languages
Table Of Contents:		klamer_moro.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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DateStamp:		2020-05-15
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Citation:		Klamer, Marian; Moro, Francesca R. 2020. University of Hawaii Press.
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