Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Research background 1.2 Rationale and aims of the study 1.3 Study design 1.4 Book overview Chapter 2 Speech Fluency 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Performance fluency 2.3 Perceived fluency 2.4 Conversational fluency 2.5 Pedagogical fluency 2.6 A dynamic systems approach to speech fluency 2.7 Chapter summary Chapter 3 Formulaie Language 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Features of formulaic language 3.3 Formulaic language and speech fluency 3.4 Formulaic language in language acquisition 3.5 Approaches to identifying formulaic language 3.6 Procedures for investigating formulaic language 3.7 Chapter summary Chapter 4 Learner Corpus Research (LCR) 4.1 Introduction 4.2 LCR and its theoretical support 4.3 Strengths and weaknesses of LCR 4.4 Contrastive interlanguage analysis (CIA) 4.5 Chapter summary Chapter 5 Two Corpora of Academic Spoken English 5.1 Introduction 5.2 DSS 5.3 MiniM 5.4 Chapter summary Chapter 6 Quantitative Analysis 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Factors and criteria for identifying formulaic sequences 6.3 Programs of analysis 6.4 Procedures of quantitative analysis and results 6.5 Chapter summary Chapter 7 Formulaie Sequences with Internal Pauses 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Analytical procedures 7.3 Clusters in DSS 7.4 Clusters in MiniM 7.5 Chapter summary Chapter 8 High Frequency Formulaic Sequences and Pauses 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Prepositional clusters 8.3 Subject verb clusters 8.4 Verb to clusters 8.5 Noun phrase clusters
8.6 Conjunction pronoun clusters 8.7 Chapter summary Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusion 9.1 Summary of findings 9.2 Relevance and implications 9.3 Limitations and future directions References Acknowledgments
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