The conjunctions att ‘that’ and och ‘and’ in Swedish are examined with the goal of finding prosodic and segmental cues distinguishing between their occurrence in fluent and hesitation disfluency contexts (when followed by a pause). Analysis of data indicates the following major tendencies: 1. the mean F0 in the function words does not differ significantly in hesitation and fluent contexts where...

This paper deals with the contextual analysis of the vocalic hesitation euh in French in a corpus of human elicited answers. Through the analysis of the contextual combinatorial patterns, the new information introductory role of this vocalic hesitation is investigated. Observations supports trends noticed in other languages and suggest potential optimization for question answering automatic sys...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of patience and its components (transcendence, tolerance, contentment, persistence, and hesitation) in predicting bullying among primary school children in shiraz, iran. another purpose was to compare patience and bullying between male and female students. method: the participants were 317 elementary school students (169 female...

Building on psychologists' observations that individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) speak slower and more quietly, this study examines to what extent the characteristics of hesitation disfluencies and silent pauses distinguish between SAD and control participants. Participants responded verbally to six identical questions, and their responses were recorded and analyzed. Our first observ...

This study investigated the relationship between the contextual probability of lexical items in spontaneous speech, as measured by the Cloze procedure, and word frequency. It also attempted to determine the relative importance of the two variables in causing delay, in the form of hesitation, in the production of spontaneous speech. The analysis revealed that content words of low contextual prob...

There is a growing consensus that there is a need to evaluate second language speech performance with respect to first language speech behavior. To support this need, the Crosslinguistic Corpus of Hesitation Phenomena was developed. This freely available corpus is designed to investigate the crosslinguistic influence of speech patterns and consists of recordings of speakers producing first and ...