Fillers, pauses and placeholders / edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd H. Davis, Margaret Maclagan.

Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any resemb...

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Other Authors: Amiridze, Nino, 1971- (Editor), Davis, Boyd H. (Editor), Maclagan, Margaret (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
©2010
Series:Typological studies in language ; v. 93.
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