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Filled pause
A filled pause is a non-silent pause in otherwise fluent speech, where instead of a silent pause there is a filler. The filler can be non-lexical or semiarticulate utterances such as huh, uh, erm, um, or hmm. Fillers may also include words such as well, so, I mean, and like, when used in ways that do not change the meaning of the surrounding speech. This particular type of pause is one of several types of speech disfluencies, which also include silent pauses, "false starts", phrases that are restarted or repeated, and repeated syllables.
Article summary
A filled pause is a non-silent pause in otherwise fluent speech, where instead of a silent pause there is a filler. The filler can be non-lexical or semiarticulate utterances such as huh, uh, erm, um, or hmm. Fillers may also include words such as well, so, I mean, and like, when used in ways that do not change the meaning of the surrounding speech. This particular type of pause is one of several types of speech disfluencies, which also include silent pauses, "false starts", phrases that are restarted or repeated, and repeated syllables.
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- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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