A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard
what someone just said–is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken …

This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits,
identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies …

There is plenty of evidence that speech and gesture form a tightly integrated system, as
reflected in parallelisms in language production, comprehension, and development (;). Yet, it …

The present corpus study aims to contribute to the debate regarding the lexical or non-
lexical status of filled pauses. Although they are commonly associated with hesitation …

In this study, we investigate crosslinguistic patterns in the alternation between um, a
hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel followed by a final labial nasal, and uh, a …

Based on an analysis of the speech of long‐term émigrés of German and Dutch origin, the
present investigation discusses to what extent hesitation patterns in language attrition may …

Abstract In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird untersucht, welche akustischen Eigenschaften
Füllpartikeln wie äh und ähm in spontansprachlichen Dialogen des Deutschen zeigen und …

The terms hesitation, planner, filler, and filled pause do not always refer to the same
phonetic entities. This terminological conundrum is approached by investigating the …

This study explored the effect of speaking task on midclause pausing characteristics in the
L1 and L2 speech of the same speakers to gain further insights into the potential relationship …

Filled pauses are widely considered as a relatively consistent feature of an individual's
speech. However, acoustic consistency has only been observed within single-session …