Non-Native Speech

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

Native ‘um’s elicit prediction of low-frequency referents, but non-native ‘um’s do not

Speech comprehension involves extensive use of prediction. Linguistic prediction may be guided by the semantics or syntax, but also by …

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