In order to model hesitations for technical applications such as conversational speech
synthesis, it is desirable to understand interactions between individual hesitation markers. In …

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” …

'Disfluencies', defined as a suspension of speech, are usually more frequent in L2 than in
L1, which is said to be related to the learners' proficiency level.'Disfluency'or 'fluency'have …

Cette étude exploratoire s' inscrit dans un projet d'analyse des (dis) fluences sur un corpus
français oral spontané et préparé qui prend en compte les différentes modalités du discours …

This paper explores the multifunctional uses of silent pauses, adopting a multimodal
perspective. Pauses are said to serve numerous functions in speech, and this small …

This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis) fluency, evaluating fluency across
three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an …

Pause-internal phonetic particles (PINTs) comprise a variety of phenomena including:
phonetic-acoustic silence, inhalation and exhalation breath noises, filler particles “uh” and …

In the body of research on the relationship between gesture and speech, some models
propose they form an integrated system while others attribute gestures a compensatory role …

It is a widely known phenomenon that silence among people engaged in dialogue can be
awkward. In linguistic terms, the awkward silence could be understood as a silence …

We present a new take on mouse-tracking to analyze online processing of speech. We
expand current paradigms by embedding the task into a drag & drop game that awards a …