Table 7.

Mean values of acoustic measures from the contextualized speaking task for the German-English L2 learners (standard deviations in parentheses)

	NP-attachment	VP-attachment
L1 German
Subject length (in ms)	542 (173)	529 (168)
Verb length (in ms)	327 (107)	329 (110)
DO length (in ms)	523 (124)	508 (139)
PP length (in ms)	1104 (244)	992 (199)
Verb pitch excursion (in ERB)	0.52 (1.74)	0.14 (1.80)
DO pitch excursion (in ERB)	0.51 (1.25)	0.91 (1.36)
Subject-Verb pause %	1.1 (10.6)	1.1 (10.5)
V-DO pause %	4.5 (20.8)	5.6 (23.0)
DO-PP pause %	1.1 (10.6)	5.6 (23.0)
Pitch accent on mit %	31.4 (46.7)	50.0 (50.3)
L2 English
Subject length (in ms)	530 (162)	513 (150)
Verb length (in ms)	344 (125)	362 (144)
DO length (in ms)	506 (132)	511 (144)
PP length (in ms)	1052 (243)	977 (272)
Verb pitch excursion (in ERB)	−0.19 (1.10)	−0.14 (1.21)
DO pitch excursion (in ERB)	0.35 (1.63)	0.39 (1.58)
Subject-Verb pause %	12.8 (33.6)	10.7 (31.1)
V-DO pause %	11.6 (32.2)	11.9 (32.6)
DO-PP pause %	9.3 (29.2)	10.7 (31.1)
Pitch accent on mit %	13.0 (33.8)	41.9 (49.7)