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Filled Pause Use

Filled Pause Use is a linguistic production phenomenon in spoken discourse characterized by the insertion of vocalized hesitations such as "uh," "um," or similar sounds, serving as a fluency marker that signals ongoing message formulation during real-time speech.

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Hesitation Phenomena in Spontaneous English Speech

Howard Maclay, Charles E. Osgood · WORD · 1959 · 769 citations

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Hesitation and Grammatical Encoding

Donald S. Boomer · Language and Speech · 1965 · 278 citations

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Hesitation Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech: The Meaning of <i>um</i>

Martin Corley, Oliver Stewart · Language and Linguistics Compass · 2008 · 238 citations · Full text

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Speech disfluency and the structure of knowledge.

Stanley Schachter, Nicholas Christenfeld, Bernard Ravina et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1991 · 218 citations

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Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of upcoming phrases for native and non-native listeners

Michiko WATANABE, Keikichi Hirose, Yasuharu Den et al. · Speech Communication · 2007 · 160 citations

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Authors

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    Nicholas Christenfeld

    University of California San Diego, United States

    5 publications · 355 citations

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    Mark Cook

    St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Australia

    4 publications · 104 citations

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    Stanley Schachter

    Columbia University, United States

    4 publications · 321 citations

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    Martin Corley

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 325 citations

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    Frances Bilous

    Columbia University, United States

    3 publications · 286 citations

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  1. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    13 publications

    748 citations

  2. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    523 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    185 citations

  4. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    47 citations

  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    38 citations

  6. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    69 citations

  7. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    66 citations

  8. University of Tsukuba

    Tsukuba, Japan

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    48 citations

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  1. Language and Speech

    8 publications · 481 citations

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  2. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

    4 publications · 164 citations

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  5. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    2 publications · 229 citations

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