On filled-pauses and prolongations in european portuguese

Moniz, Helena; Mata, Ana Isabel; Viana, M. Céu

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2007-695

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“…From a prosodic point of view, previous studies have shown a tendency for the fundamental frequency to decrease locally on the disfluent syllable or region (-0.9 ST in Portuguese, [5]) and to increase between the disfluent and the immediately following region (+0.8 ST). Using a corpus of eight languages, [7] showed that filled pauses (or autonomous vowels of hesitation support) mostly have a duration between 200 ms and 650 ms.…”

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“…Moreover, disfluencies are also presented as indicative of the unpredictability of speech ( [2]) and can be perceptually exploited as the announcement of new or complex content ( [3,4]). Thus, while they are often presented as characteristic of (unprepared) spontaneous speech ( [5]), disfluencies are also regularly produced in formal or prepared styles ( [6]).…”

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Disfluencies in continuous speech in French: Prosodic parameters of filled pauses and vowel lengthening

Wu¹,

Didirková²,

Simon³

2023

Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop 2023

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This study examines prosodic parameters in two types of disfluencies, vowel lengthenings, and filled pauses. We analyzed approximately 2.5 hours of continuous speech representing 11 different speech genres, including prepared, semi-prepared, and unprepared speech. Mean fundamental frequency (f0) and pitch resets were analyzed to compare the prosodic correlates of disfluent (e.g., lengthenings, filled pauses) syllables with their surrounding fluent syllables as a function of the degree of speech preparation.The results show that the average fundamental frequency is lower in filled pauses and disfluent vowel lengthenings than in fluent speech. Furthermore, filled pauses are produced with a lower f0 than vowel lengthening. Larger pitch resets are observed between disfluent units and their preceding contexts, and both filled pauses and prolongations depend on the degree of preparation of the discourse. The duration of vowel lengthening tends to be longer than that of filled pauses.

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Disfluencies in continuous speech in French: Prosodic parameters of filled pauses and vowel lengthening

Wu¹,

Didirková²,

Simon³

2023

Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop 2023

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“…However, they fundamentally differ in the degree of integration with the contextual speech units, prolongations belonging to word segments and filled pauses being independent elements. Moreover, filled pauses are found to have greater average duration than lengthenings (Swedish and Tok Pisin [7,4]; German [12]; European Portuguese [14]; Italian [15,16]). This suggests that they may be involved in different ways in speech planning.…”

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Prolongation in Italian

Schettino,

Eklund

2023

Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop 2023

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This study follows the framework set by the strand of corpus studies aimed at investigating and unveiling the role of prolongations as linguistic elements by comparing their use in different languages, ranging from Germanic languages (Swedish, American English, German) to Tok Pisin, Chinese Mandarin, Hungarian and Hebrew, and provides evidence on the use of prolongation in a Romance language, namely Italian. The analysis is conducted on different speech styles, i.e., descriptive informal dialogic speech as well as informative monologic speech, and concerns the distributional characterisations of prolongation phenomena, their segmental and durational traits also considering the comparison with another type of voiced speech management phenomena, that is non-verbal vocalisations. The main results show that in the considered Italian data speakers use prolongations more frequently than non-verbal vocalisations and the latter are generally longer, which argues for the fact that these two voiced phenomena are differently involved in speech management. Then, the distributional and segmental features of prolongations in Italian as compared to other languages support the idea that prolongations, as linguistic elements, are subjected, to a certain extent, to the phonotactic constraints of languages. 1

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“…Filled pauses, also commonly known as uh and um , have been studied extensively in different languages, such as French (e.g., Candea, 2000), English (e.g., Clark & Fox Tree, 2002), Japanese (e.g., Watanabe et al, 2008), Dutch (e.g., De Leeuw, 2007) or Portuguese (e.g., Moniz et al, 2007). Despite phonological variations across languages, filled pauses mainly consist of two contrasting variants, namely a central vowel uh and a nasal sound uhm (Clark & Fox Tree, 2002, p. 92).…”

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The dual status of filled pauses: Evidence from genre, proficiency and co-occurrence

Kosmala

Crible

2021

Lang Speech

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The present corpus study aims to contribute to the debate regarding the lexical or non-lexical status of filled pauses. Although they are commonly associated with hesitation, disfluency, and production difficulty, it has also been argued that they can serve more fluent communicative functions in discourse (e.g., turn-taking, stance-marking). Our work is grounded in a usage-based and discourse-functional approach to filled pauses, and we address this debate by examining the multiple characteristics of euh and eum in spoken French, as well as their co-occurrence with discourse markers. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, we analyze their distribution across different communication settings (prepared monologs vs. spontaneous conversations) and levels of language proficiency (native vs. non-native). Quantitative findings indicate differences in frequency, duration, position, and patterns of co-occurrence across corpora, and our qualitative analyses identify fine-grained differences, mainly two distinct patterns of distribution (initial position clustered with a discourse marker vs. medial position clustered with other hesitation markers), reflecting the different “fluent” and “disfluent” uses of filled pauses. We thus argue for a dual status of euh and eum based on formal, functional, and contextual features.

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On filled-pauses and prolongations in european portuguese

Cited by 12 publications

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Disfluencies in continuous speech in French: Prosodic parameters of filled pauses and vowel lengthening

Disfluencies in continuous speech in French: Prosodic parameters of filled pauses and vowel lengthening

Prolongation in Italian

The dual status of filled pauses: Evidence from genre, proficiency and co-occurrence

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