Phonetic evidence for two types of disfluency

Prosodic parallelism as a cue to repetition disfluency

Repetition disfluencies are among the most frequent type of disfluency in conversational speech, accounting for over 20% of disfluencies, yet they do not generally lead to comprehension errors for human listeners. We propose that parallel prosodic features in the REP and ALT intervals of the repetition disfluency provide strong perceptual cues that signal the repetition to the listener. We repo...

Prosodic parallelism as a cue to repetition and error correction disfluency

Complex disfluencies that involve the repetition or correction of words are frequent in conversational speech, with repetition disfluencies alone accounting for over 20% of disfluencies. These disfluencies generally do not lead to comprehension errors for human listeners. We propose that the frequent occurrence of parallel prosodic features in the reparandum (REP) and alteration (ALT) intervals...

Phonetic Consequences of Speech Disfluency

Unlike read or laboratory speech, spontaneous speech contains high rates of disfluencies (e.g., repetitions, repairs, filled pauses). Such events reflect production problems frequently encountered in everyday conversation. Analyses of American English show that disfluency affects a variety of phonetic aspects of speech, including segment durations, intonation, voice quality, vowel quality, and ...

Phonetic Exponents of Disfluency in German Spontaneous Speech*

Disfluency & Behaviour in Dialogue: Evidence from Eye-Gaze

Previous research on disfluency types has focused on their distinct cognitive causes, prosodic patterns, or effects on the listener [9, 12, 17, 21]. This paper seeks to add to this taxonomy by providing a psycholinguistic account of the dialogue and gaze behaviour speakers engage in when they make certain types of disfluency. Dialogues came from a version of the Map Task, [2, 4], in which 36 no...