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• Da. Eto vopros! : prosodic development of Finnish students' read-aloud Russian during study in Russia 

  Ullakonoja, Riikka (University of Jyväskylä, 2011)

• The Development of Russian Heritage Pupils' Writing Proficiency in Finnish and Russian 

  Nieminen, Lea; Ullakonoja, Riikka (Multilingual Matters, 2018)

  James Cummins has stated that “a cognitively and academically beneficial form of bilingualism can be achieved only on the basis of adequately developed first language (L1) skills” (1979, p. 222). In this chapter we focus ...

• Prosody and fluency of Finland Swedish as a second language : Investigating global parameters for automated speaking assessment 

  Kallio, Heini; Kautonen, Maria; Kuronen, Mikko (Elsevier BV, 2023)

  This study investigates prosody and fluency of Finland Swedish as a second language (L2). The main objective is to investigate global measures of prosody and fluency as predictors of overall oral proficiency, fluency, and ...

• The role of pause location in perceived fluency and proficiency in L2 Finnish 

  Kallio, Heini; Kuronen, Mikko; Koivusalo, Liisa (International Speech Communication Association, 2022)

  Fluency is a commonly used descriptor of second language (L2) speaking skills. Unplanned and too frequent pauses, hesitations, and repetitions disrupt the flow of speech and can cause temporal irregularities at all levels ...

• Utterance fluency in Finnish Sign Language L1 and L2 signing 

  Sipronen, Suvi; Kanto, Laura (Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys, 2021)

  This paper explores the fluency of first language (L1) and second language (L2) signers of Finnish Sign Language. The phenomenon was approached by measuring utterance fluency using speed and breakdown parameters. The ...