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This transcription is over space, it is between two people at a music VIP party. They are roughly the same age, and although both from two different countries, both, in their own right, sound quite similar. Jonas, the Music artist behind “Basshunter”, Is Swedish and is being interviewed by The interviewer who is Dutch. Both speak very good English. Their grammar and linguistic features are both shared when you compare the two together.

Features of spontaneous spoken English are non-fluency features, such as pauses, repairs and repetitions, Interruptions, False Starts, Topic change, Adjacency Pairs and turn taking.

Examples of a few of these features are featured below in an extract of my transcript.

“Jonas:        But actually, the erm, Dutch, Dutch and Swedish it’s kinda similar in some forms. I was watching (.) Dutch TV in the hotel room and I was like, I was watching the subtitles // , and I was like, okay //

Interviewer:                                 // yea                        // And you recognised // Some of the words“

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In the above extract many features of non-fluency features are shown, mainly because of the minor language barrier, and both speakers not speaking in their home language. Such non-fluency features are pauses, repetitions, topic change, repairing, and turn taking.” I was watching (.) Dutch TV” indicates a one second pause, this is most probably due to the fact that he was thinking what he wanted to say in Swedish, then translated it into English from knowledge. An example of repetition is “Jonas:        But actually, the erm, Dutch, Dutch and Swedish it’s kinda” he repeats the word Dutch while thinking of ...

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