Filled pauses in Hungarian: Their phonetic form and function

Abstract

Filled pauses are natural occurrences in spontaneous speech and they may turn up at any level of the speech planning process and in a number of functions. The aim of this paper is to find out whether the diverse functions of filled pauses correlate with diverse articulations resulting in diverse acoustic structures. Spontaneous narratives are used as research material. The duration of the filled pauses and the frequency values of their first two formants are analyzed. The most frequent form, schwa, shows function-dependent realizations as confirmed by the durational values and by the second formant values of these vowellike sounds.

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Proceedings of DiSS 2019

“…For the analysis the speech rates (the total number of sounds divided by total speaking time with the pauses), articulation rates (the total number of https://doi.org/10.21862/diss-09-017-laczko sounds divided by total speaking time without pauses), the ratio of unfilled and filled pauses were calculated in both types of speeches. The duration of different types of pauses and the function of filled pauses (speaking intention, error and repair, uncertainty Horváth, 2010)) was also analysed in each situations among the speakers. For the acoustic analysis the Praat program (Boersma, 2001) was used, the statistical analysis was done by the SPSS 13.00 version.…”