We examined whether filled pauses (FPs) affect listeners' predictions about the complexity of
upcoming phrases in Japanese. Studies of spontaneous speech corpora show that …

There is an ongoing debate whether phenomena of disfluency (such as filled pauses) are
produced communicatively. Clark and Fox Tree (Cognition 84 (1): 73–111, 2002) propose …

This study analyzed data obtained from interviews with a deafblind man (DBM), mediated by
Japanese finger braille interpreters (FBIs), to explore the negotiation of intersubjective …

An expanding body of research in linguistics deals with discourse markers (DMs), the
expressions that have emotive rather than referential functions (Holker, 1991). Taking a …

In this paper, I will discuss one particular phenomenon observed in Japanese conversation.
It is concerned with the distal demonstrative pronoun are ('that'). This use of are is different …

When a speaker encounters a word-formulation problem in interaction, she may use a
placeholder to saturate the syntactic slot of the target expression in the unfolding sentence …

This study investigates the Japanese interjections anoo and sonoo, both of which are
pragmaticized from adnominal forms of distal demonstratives, and have been often …

Eeto is one of the most frequently occurring Japanese vocal markers. Often characterized as
a mere time-buyer, or “filler”, this token has been frequently said to reflect ongoing internal …

Using the Core of the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese, acoustic analysis of F1, spectral tilt
(TL), H1-H2, jitter and F0 was conducted to examine the voice-quality difference between …

Fillers such as “um” and “uh” are believed to be concerned with on-line speech planning. In
the present study I researched on two questions: 1) whether fillers tend to be uttered when …