Tanja Schultz and Katrin Kirchhoff have compiled a comprehensive overview of speech
processing from a multilingual perspective. By taking this all-inclusive approach to speech …

Although disfluent speech is pervasive in spoken conversation, disfluencies have received
little attention within formal theories of grammar. The majority of work on disfluent language …

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

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 …

The occurrence of hesitation markers is generally considered to be part of the verbal
planning process. It is also a feature which is of potential importance to the forensic …

Much of contemporary mainstream formal grammar theory is unable to provide analyses for
language as it occurs in actual spoken interaction. Its analyses are developed for a cleaned …

It has been claimed that filled pauses are transferred from the first (L1) into the second
language (L2), suggesting that they are not directly learned by L2 speakers. This would …

Filled pauses are well known for their speaker specificity, yet cross-linguistic research has
also shown language-specific trends in their distribution and phonetic quality. To examine …

This contribution aims at giving an overview of present automatic speech recognition in
French highlighting typical transcription problems for this language. Explanations for errors …

This paper examines the use of 'uh'and 'um'in spontaneous speech.'Uh'and 'um'have
traditionally been labeled as markers of disfluency, and in questionanswering, they are …