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O'Connell, Daniel C.; Kowal, Sabine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
Clark and Fox Tree (2002) have presented empirical evidence, based primarily on the London-Lund corpus (LL; Svartvik & Quirk, 1980), that the fillers "uh" and "um" are conventional English words that signal a speaker's intention to initiate a minor and a major delay, respectively. We present here empirical analyses of "uh" and "um" and of silent…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Intention, Speech Communication