Filled pauses as cues to the complexity of upcoming phrases for native and non-native listeners

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-94

  Watanabe, Michiko ^a   Hirose, Keikichi ^a   Den, Yasuharu ^b   Minematsu, Nobuaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complexity; Filled pauses; Japanese; Listeners; Prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SCREEN; FILLED PAUSES; NON-NATIVE LISTENERS; UPCOMING PHRASES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 37749037763     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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