I would like to thank my promotor Stephen C. Levinson, and my supervisors Sotaro Kita and
Peter Indefrey for their guidance. Stephen C. Levinson gave me the opportunity to work in an …

I would like to thank my dissertation advisor, David McNeill, for his unwavering support
throughout the course of this project and the pilot studies that went into it, and for providing …

This paper discusses what happens when things go wrong in the planning and execution of
running speech, comparing disfluency in typical speech with pathological disfluency in …

Three experiments investigated listeners' ability to detect disfluency in spontaneous speech.
All employed gated word recognition with judgments of disfluency for spontaneous …

Why do people gesture when they speak? According to one influential proposal, the Lexical
Retrieval Hypothesis (LRH), gestures serve a cognitive function in speakers' minds by …

It seems self-evident that, if we want to obtain or evaluate evidence about the communicative
value of conversational gestures, we will first have to clarify what we mean by gesture and …

Unlike read or laboratory speech, spontaneous speech contains high rates of disfluencies
(eg, repetitions, repairs, filled pauses). Such events reflect production problems frequently …

Though filled pauses and gestures frequently accompany speech, their function is not well
understood. We suggest that it may be helpful in furthering our knowledge of these …

Brownian and Goldstein's 'articulatory phonology'has been outlined in a number of papers,
latterly in the Journal of Phonetics thematic issue 'Phonetic Representation'11990. pp. 299 …

This paper describes an experimental pilot study of disfluency and gesture rates in
spontaneous speech where speakers perform a communication task in three conditions …