It is generally accepted that filled pauses (“uh,”“er,” and “um”) indicate time out while the
speaker searches for the next word or phrase. It is hypothesized that the more options, the
more likely that a speaker will say “uh.” The academic disciplines differ in the extent to which …

Previous research has shown that disfluency–the subjective experience of difficulty
associated with cognitive operations–leads to deeper processing. Two studies explore the
extent to which this deeper processing engendered by disfluency interventions can lead to …

People process new information along a continuum, from very fluently (with great ease) to
very disfluently (with great difficulty). Researchers have long recognized that people prefer
fluently processed stimuli across a broad range of dimensions. A more recent stream of …

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
conversations (Schober & Carstensen, 2001) with variables that might affect fluency rates …

Unlike read or laboratory speech, spontaneous speech contains high rates of disfluencies
eg, repetitions, repairs, filled pauses. Such events reflect production problems frequently
encountered in everyday conversation. Analyses of American English show that disfluency  …

Disfluent speech presents problems for both computational and psycholinguistic models of
speech processing. The surface strings produced when speech is interrupted by disfluency
require complex editing processes from computational models in order to produce well …

Although the past 50 years of research on early childhood stuttering and normal disfluency
have produced vital information on the general features of disfluent speech behavior of
young children, an adequate normative reference for early stuttering does not exist. The …

Most research on the rapid mental processes of online language processing has been
limited to the study of idealized, fluent utterances. Yet speakers are often disfluent, for
example, saying “thee, uh, candle” instead of “the candle.” By monitoring listeners' eye …

One difficulty in persuasion is overcoming the confirmation bias, where people selectively
seek evidence that is consistent with their prior beliefs and expectations. This biased search
for information allows people to analyze new information in an efficient, but shallow way …

In this paper, we model the problem of disfluency detection using a transition-based
framework, which incrementally constructs and labels the disfluency chunk of input
sentences using a new transition system without syntax information. Compared with …