Listeners' uses ofum anduh in speech comprehension
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Memory & Cognition
- Vol. 29 (2), 320-326
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03194926
Abstract
Despite their frequency in conversational talk, little is known about how ums and uhs affect listeners' on-line processing of spontaneous speech. Two studies of ums and uhs in English and Dutch reveal that hearing an uh has a beneficial effect on listeners' ability to recognize words in upcoming speech, but that hearing an um has neither a beneficial nor a detrimental effect. The results suggest that um and uh are different from one another and support the hypothesis that uh is a signal of short upcoming delay and um is a signal of a long upcoming delay.Keywords
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