VOL. 62, BOOK 1, PART B, 2024, pp. 11 – 22 Full text (Ru)
Author: Tatуana Aleksieva
Affiliation: St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Abstract
Spontaneous speech contains a large number of disfluencies, including filled and unfilled pauses, repairs, repetitions, and false starts. The current study investigates self-initiated self-repairs in the monologues of Bulgarian speakers of Russian. Ten advanced Bulgarian students have read and retold the Russian version of Aesop’s fable ‘The North Wind and the Sun’. The audio recordings were acoustically analyzed and manually annotated in PRAAT using the ToRI tool. The study identifies the causes of self-repairs in second language speech production, the structural range of corrections, and the strategies employed by students in response to disfluencies.
Key words: spontaneous speech, monologues, disfluencies, self-repairs, second language, Bulgarian speakers
