This study investigates the interplay of spoken and gestural hesitations under varying
amounts of cognitive load. We argue that not only fillers and silences, as the most common …

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 …

The forensic application of phonetics relies on individuality in speech. In the forensic
domain, individual patterns of verbal and paraverbal behavior are of interest which are …

In this corpus-based study we explore three measurements of L2 fluency–articulation rate,
filler particles, and pauses–, both within and between two registers of spontaneous …

The research presented in this thesis deals with so-called “disfluency” phenomena, a topic
of study traditionally concerned with the annotation of a priori “disfluent” forms, such as “uh” …

Introduction We investigated the prosodic perception of uncertainty cues in adults with
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) compared to neurotypical adults (NTC). Method We used …

This study concerns hesitation strategies that tourist guides may use to manage their
speech, with particular attention to individual variability. Previous work has pointed out that …

This study follows the framework set by the strand of corpus studies aimed at investigating
and unveiling the role of prolongations as linguistic elements by comparing their use in …

Modern automatic speech recognition systems can achieve remarkable performances.
However, they usually neglect speech characteristic phenomena such as fillers (< eeh>< …

Psychotherapy is widely recognized as an effective treatment for various mental disorders,
and therapists undergo extensive training to obtain qualifications. However, research …