This study explores the connection between language and social cognition by empirically
testing different typological analyses of various demonstrative systems. Linguistic typology …

There is mounting evidence that the filled pauses that pervade spontaneous speech
constitute a rich site of linguistic inquiry. The present study uses a comparative variationist …

This article investigates the effects of long-term bilingualism on the production of filled
pauses (FPs; eg, uh, um, eh, em) in the speech of Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals from …

This study explored the influence of social and syntactic-pragmatic factors on a speaker's
choice between hesitation markers este and eh in oral discourse. Data collected from San …

The research on clicks in Spanish has been surprisingly scarce. Using a data corpus of 764
clicks produced by 20 speakers from Spain, we approach clicks as discourse markers that …

This study addresses language myths that users evoke when reacting to institutional
language changes proposed by the Spanish Royal Academy (Real Academia Española …

Previous research has pointed at naturalness and communicative efficiency as possible
constraints on language structure. Here, we investigated adjective position in American Sign …

The discourse markers _este_ and _eh_, very common in spoken Spanish in Mexico City,
frequently function as filled pauses and reformulative markers. Despite their prevalence in …

In this dissertation, I explore how speakers of Peninsular Spanish keep epistemic alignment
during a conversation by using two discourse markers: sentence initial'si'and sentence …