Year: 2009
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Natural spoken language is full of disfluency.Around 10% of utterances produced in everyday speech contain disfluencies such as repetitions, repairs, filled pauses and other hesitation phenomena.The production of disfluency has generally been attributed to underlying problems in the planning and formulation of upcoming speech.However, it remains an open question to what extent factors known to affect the selection and retrieval of words in isolation influence disfluency production during connected speech, and whether different types of disfluency are associated with difficulties at different stages of production.Previous attempts to answer these questions have largely relied on corpora of unconstrained, spontaneous speech; to date, there has been little direct experimental research that has attempted to manipulate factors that underlie natural disfluency v I am grateful to the assistance provided by a number of colleagues who helped with cross-coding and transcription, stooging and general assistance with many different aspects of my experimental work.Most notably, Hannah Clark and Lucy Furness, who assisted with the running of an early experiment; Katelyn Zmich who helped me with coding, Lucy MacGregor and Ollie Stewart, who graciously volunteered to transcribe and cross-code some of my data; and to Esther Mead, Gemma Rundell, Sally Pring and Jess Buck, who performed admirably as innocent stooges, and made many an experimental day more enjoyable.Life would have been pretty boring if it had not been for my office mates, fellow EDGers, and good friends Dr. Corey McMillan, Dr. Lucy MacGregor, Suzy Moat and Dr. Phil Collard, who have all contributed enormously in terms of enlightening discussion and cups of tea.I would also like to thank the other members of the Edinburgh Disfluency Group, and in particular Robin Lickley
Source: ERA
Author: Michael J. Schnadt
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W823693123