How Listeners Compensate for Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 274-296

  Brennan, Susan E ^a   Schober, Michael F ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Disfluencies; Fillers; Paralinguistic cues; Parsing; Pauses; Repairs; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035242149     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2753     Document Type: Article

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