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

Wieling, Martijn; Grieve, Jack; Bouma, Gosse; Fruehwald, Josef; Coleman, John; Liberman, Mark

doi:10.1163/22105832-00602001

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“…Wieling et al (2016) demonstrate significant differences in the choice of ‘um’ vs. ‘uh’ (and their cross-linguistic variants) both between male/female and younger/older speakers in four Germanic languages (Dutch, English, German, and Norwegian). This emergent body of work supports the claim that hesitation markers are words the choice between which reflects explicit speaker intention.…”

Section: Much Of Our Grammatical Competence Concerns Language Use mentioning

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Grammar Is a System That Characterizes Talk in Interaction

Ginzburg

Poesio

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Much of contemporary mainstream formal grammar theory is unable to provide analyses for language as it occurs in actual spoken interaction. Its analyses are developed for a cleaned up version of language which omits the disfluencies, non-sentential utterances, gestures, and many other phenomena that are ubiquitous in spoken language. Using evidence from linguistics, conversation analysis, multimodal communication, psychology, language acquisition, and neuroscience, we show these aspects of language use are rule governed in much the same way as phenomena captured by conventional grammars. Furthermore, we argue that over the past few years some of the tools required to provide a precise characterizations of such phenomena have begun to emerge in theoretical and computational linguistics; hence, there is no reason for treating them as “second class citizens” other than pre-theoretical assumptions about what should fall under the purview of grammar. Finally, we suggest that grammar formalisms covering such phenomena would provide a better foundation not just for linguistic analysis of face-to-face interaction, but also for sister disciplines, such as research on spoken dialogue systems and/or psychological work on language acquisition.

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Section: Much Of Our Grammatical Competence Concerns Language Use mentioning

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Grammar Is a System That Characterizes Talk in Interaction

Ginzburg

Poesio

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…As is typical in CS (e.g. Eisenstein, ; Wieling et al., ), and to avoid duplication, retweets and advertisements were removed from the dataset. In addition, the maximum number of tweets was limited to 3,000 per user to avoid an uneven skew across the dataset.…”

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“…It is, therefore, perhaps unsurprising that social media datasets are becoming commonplace in studies of language variation and change (e.g. Wieling et al., ). In these studies and in the absence of speech, researchers examine the orthographic representation of some spoken language feature.…”

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“Sassy Queens”: Stylistic orthographic variation in Twitter and the enregisterment ofAAVE

Ilbury

2019

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Recent computational sociolinguistic analyses of social media have emphasized the potential of using orthographic variation as a proxy for speech, thereby permitting macro‐level quantitative studies of regional and social variation (e.g. Eisenstein, 2015). However, the extent to which stylistic variation may affect these analyses remains largely unexplored. In this paper, I explore how authors use variant spellings stylistically to deploy personae and characterological figures (Agha, 2003), by examining the presence of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features in a corpus of 15,804 tweets extracted from the timelines of 10 gay British men. I argue that the stylization of AAVE signals the development of a very specific persona—the “Sassy Queen”—which relies on an essentialized imagining of Black women as “fierce” and “sassy.” Concluding, I emphasize the value of micro‐level analyses in complementing quantitative analyses of linguistic variation in social media.

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“…In each language pauses are expressed differently (Stenstrom, 2011), for example; uh and um are used in American English, er and erm are used in British English, in Spanish the usage of uh and um are noticed etc. (Weiling et al, 2016).…”

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Pauses and Hesitations in Drama Texts

Abbas¹,

Jawad²,

Muhi³

2018

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Pauses and hesitations are phenomena that can be found in speech. They can help both the speaker and the hearer, due to the functions they have in a dialogue. Their occurrence in speech has a value that they make it more understandable. In this regard, the researchers intend to critically examine the pauses and hesitations used in the two texts as well as their functions. The present paper aims to identify the types of pauses and hesitations used by Pinter's The Homecoming and Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation as well as the functions they serve and to compare both playwrights in this regard. To do so, the sequential production approach of turn taking, in combination with the contributions of some scholars who state the multifunctional use of pauses and hesitations, has been used. The findings of the present study show that pauses and hesitations do not exist arbitrarily in speech but they are found to serve certain functions depending on the context in which they occur. Regarding the two selected extracts, it is noticed from the comparison that the two writers do not use pauses and hesitations equally. Baker uses them more frequently than Pinter due to the context in which they are used which requires using pauses to aid comprehension.

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

Cited by 49 publications

References 27 publications

Grammar Is a System That Characterizes Talk in Interaction

Grammar Is a System That Characterizes Talk in Interaction

“Sassy Queens”: Stylistic orthographic variation in Twitter and the enregisterment ofAAVE

Pauses and Hesitations in Drama Texts

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