Disfluencies

Counting ‘uhm’s: how tracking the distribution of native and non-native disfluencies influences online language comprehension

Disfluencies, like uh, have been shown to help listeners anticipate reference to low-frequency words. The associative account of this …

Hans Rutger Bosker, Marjolein Van Os,, Rik Does, Geertje Van Bergen

Both native and non-native disfluencies trigger listeners’ attention

Disfluencies, such as uh and uhm, are known to help the listener in speech comprehension. For instance, disfluencies may elicit …

Hans Rutger Bosker, V. J. Tjiong, Hugo Quené, Ted Sanders, Nivja H. De Jong

The perception of fluency in native and nonnative speech

Where native speakers supposedly are fluent by default, nonnative speakers often have to strive hard to achieve a nativelike fluency …

Hans Rutger Bosker, Hugo Quené, Ted Sanders, Nivja H. De Jong