The terms hesitation, planner, filler, and filled pause do not always refer to the same
phonetic entities. This terminological conundrum is approached by investigating the …

Previous research suggests that individuals exhibit consistent tendencies towards taking
their own (an egocentric) or their partner's (an othercentric) spatial perspective. In addition …

In forensic speaker comparisons, the current practice is to try to avoid comparisons between
speech fragments in different languages. However, globalization requires an exploration of …

Speech is made up of a continuous stream of speech sounds that is interrupted by pauses
and breathing. As phoneticians are primarily interested in describing the segments of the …

This paper investigates the intra-individual consistency in the production of filler particle
frequencies and forms. The data consist of five non-native (L2) mid to high proficient …

Filled pauses (FPs), uh and um, are an inherent characteristic of impromptu spoken English.
However, despite the ubiquity of FP studies across languages and their impacts on speech …

Speakers' voices convey idiosyncratic information. In everyday communication, listeners
make use of this information while interpreting what they hear and, in forensic phonetics …

While creaky voice is a well-known stylistic-prosodic feature of American English, its use in
other languages is under-researched. In Dutch, it has been claimed to be rare and …

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

Natural speech is interspersed with pauses, word repetitions, phrase repairs, and other
disfluencies. These hesitations are typical characteristics of spontaneous conversations and …