Hesitation Markers in English, German, and Dutch

Leeuw, Esther de

doi:10.1017/s1470542707000049

Cited by 80 publications

(59 citation statements)

References 17 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In other words, hesitation markers are seen as marking disfluency during language production. This general explanation for the use of hesitation markers has been referred to as the symptom hypothesis (De Leeuw, 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this study, we investigate cross-linguistic patterns in the alternation between UM, a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel followed by a final labial nasal, and UH, a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel in an open syllable. Based on a quantitative analysis of a range of spoken and written corpora, we identify clear and consistent patterns of change in the use of these forms in various Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese) and dialects (American English, British English), with the use of UM increasing over time relative to the use of UH. We also find that this pattern of change is generally led by women and more educated speakers. Finally, we propose a series of possible explanations for this surprising change in hesitation marker usage that is currently taking place across Germanic languages.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages

et al. 2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These are often preceded and followed by pauses. Hesitation markers also show variation across languages (De Leeuw, 2007). Language learners, as observed by the researchers, have a tendency to transfer their native language hesitation markers to their learned foreign languages.…”

Section: Hesitation Markersmentioning

confidence: 53%

Understanding Fluency and Disfluency in Non-native Speakers’ Conversational English

2017

EDUC SCI-THEOR PRACT

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Technical University, Çankaya, Ankara 06800 Turkey. Email: nurdano@metu.edu.tr Abstract Developing speaking fluency in a foreign language is a challenging goal especially in countries where English is learned as a foreign language as learners have no natural exposure to the target language. This paper discusses how fluency and disfluency are reflected in English conversations of Turkish students. It is assumed that developing fluency in a foreign language can be an easier task if we can understand the nature of fluency. For that purpose, ten Turkish undergraduate students' conversational English was analyzed to examine how fluency and disfluency are realized in non-native data. The data analyses revealed that fluency is related to a number of factors such as pauses, hesitations and discourse markers and language proficiency level of the speakers.

show abstract

“…Olshtain and Barzilay, 1991;Stoessel, 2000;Schmid, 2009;Schmid and Jarvis, 2014), increased frequency and persistence of pauses, repetitions, hesitations, and selfcorrections (e.g. de Leeuw, 2007;Schmid and Beers Fägersten, 2010;Yilmaz and Schimd, 2012;Schmid and Jarvis, 2014;Bergmann et al, 2015). L1 attrition has also been shown to manifest in impoverished lexical diversity (e.g.…”

Section: Lexico-semantic L1 Attritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, And What It Can Be

et al. 2019

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This review aims at clarifying the concept of first language attrition by tracing its limits, identifying its phenomenological and contextual constraints, discussing controversies associated with its definition, and suggesting potential future directions. We start by reviewing different definitions of attrition as well as associated inconsistencies. We then discuss the underlying mechanisms of first language attrition and review available evidence supporting different background hypotheses. Finally, we attempt to provide the groundwork to build a unified theoretical framework allowing for generalizable results. To this end, we suggest the deployment of a rigorous neuroscientific approach, in search of neural markers of first language attrition in different linguistic domains, putting forward hypothetical experimental ways to identify attrition's neural traces and formulating predictions for each of the proposed experimental paradigms. JEL Classification: Z.

show abstract

Hesitation Markers in English, German, and Dutch

Cited by 80 publications

References 17 publications

Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages

Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages

Understanding Fluency and Disfluency in Non-native Speakers’ Conversational English

First Language Attrition: What It Is, What It Isn’t, And What It Can Be

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About