The distinction between “pure” and “applied” sciences is an old one. According to Meinel
(2000), it was introduced by the Swedish chemist Wallerius in 1751, as part of the dispute of …

Abstract Erard's (2004) publication in the New York Times of a journalistic history of the filled
pause serves as the occasion for this critical review of the past half-century of research on …

We examined whether filled pauses (FPs) affect listeners' predictions about the complexity of
upcoming phrases in Japanese. Studies of spontaneous speech corpora show that …

PurPose—To establish what is currently known about factors that affect foreign language
listening comprehension, with a focus on characteristics of the listener, passage, and testing …

Automatic summarization of open-domain spoken dialogues is a relatively new research
area. This article introduces the task and the challenges involved and motivates and …

This paper describes a method for automatically detecting filled (vocalized) pauses, which
are one of the hesitation phenomena that current speech recognizers typically cannot …

In contrast to traditional approaches of mainstream psycholinguists, the authors of
Communicating with One Another approach spontaneous spoken discourse as a dynamic …

One ubiquitous feature of unscripted speech across languages is the use of filled pauses
and fillers. However, research has hitherto yielded opposing or ambiguous results about …

This work explores speaking style effects in the production of disfluencies. University
lectures and map-task dialogues are analyzed in order to evaluate if the prosodic strategies …

This study deals with the production of fillers used in Barack Obamas speeches. This study
is to investigate the types and functions of fillers used by Barack Obama. The study seeks to …