Abstract
Pauses in spontaneous speech have a freer distribution than pauses in read texts; however, they are not distributed haphazardly. The results of the present study show that the majority of the perceived pauses in the spontaneous speech material, 73%, occur in one of the following three positions: between sentences, after discourse markers and conjunctions and before accented content words. This is a short version of an unpublished paper on pausing in spontaneous speech.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Fonetik 98 : proceedings |
| Editors | Peter Branderud, Hartmut Traunmüller |
| Publisher | Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University |
| Pages | 158-161 |
| ISBN (Print) | 91-89192-03-6 |
| Publication status | Published - 1998 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics