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White, Katherine S.; Nilsen, Elizabeth S.; Deglint, Taylor; Silva, Janel – First Language, 2020
Disfluencies, such as 'um' or 'uh', can cause adults to attribute uncertainty to speakers, but may also facilitate speech processing. To understand how these different functions affect children's learning, we asked whether (dis)fluency affects children's decision to select information from speakers (an explicit behavior) and their learning of…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Puppetry