Processing fluency, or the subjective experience of ease with which people process
information, reliably influences people's judgments across a broad range of social …

The proposal examined here is that speakers use uh and um to announce that they are
initiating what they expect to be a minor (uh), or major (um), delay in speaking. Speakers …

" This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as well as an indispensible
reference for researchers. Introducing NLP, computational linguistics, and speech …

My goal in writing this book has been to convey the principles and issues of
psycholinguistics in a straightforward and accessible manner. The field, although principally …

Language production processes can provide insight into how language comprehension
works and language typology—why languages tend to have certain characteristics more …

A principle of efficient language production based on information theoretic considerations is
proposed: Uniform Information Density predicts that language production is affected by a …

After reviewing situational and demographic factors that have been argued to affect
speakers' disfluency rates, we examined disfluency rates in a corpus of task-oriented …

To study the time course of sentence formulation, we monitored the eye movements of
speakers as they described simple events. The similarity between speakers' initial eye …

In a regression study of conversational speech, we show that frequency, contextual
predictability, and repetition have separate contributions to word duration, despite their …

Variations in postverbal constituent ordering have been attributed to both grammatical
complexity (heaviness) and discourse status (newness), although few studies compare the …