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The filler EH in Swedish

Horne, Merle LU orcid (2006) Fonetik 2006 52. p.65-68
Abstract
Findings from a pilot study on the distribution, function and phonetic realization of the filler EH in interviews from SweDia2000 interviews are presented. The results show that EH occurs almost exclusively after function words at the beginning of constituents. The phonetic realization of EH was seen to be of three basic forms: a middle-high vowel (e.g. [e], [ɛ], [ə]), a vowel+nasal (e.g. [ɛm], [əm], [ən]), and a vowel with a creaky phonation. The vowel+vowel realization occurs as has been shown for English before other delays and is associated with planning of complex utterances. Since creaky phonation is associated with terminality, the creaky voice realization of EH could be interpreted as signalling the juncture between the filler and... (More)
Findings from a pilot study on the distribution, function and phonetic realization of the filler EH in interviews from SweDia2000 interviews are presented. The results show that EH occurs almost exclusively after function words at the beginning of constituents. The phonetic realization of EH was seen to be of three basic forms: a middle-high vowel (e.g. [e], [ɛ], [ə]), a vowel+nasal (e.g. [ɛm], [əm], [ən]), and a vowel with a creaky phonation. The vowel+vowel realization occurs as has been shown for English before other delays and is associated with planning of complex utterances. Since creaky phonation is associated with terminality, the creaky voice realization of EH could be interpreted as signalling the juncture between the filler and an upcoming disfluency. (Less)
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filled pause, filler, pause, EH, disfluency, spontaneous speech, Swedish
host publication
Working Papers
editor
Ambrazaitis, Gilbert and Schötz, Susanne
volume
52
pages
65 - 68
publisher
Center for Language and Literature, Lund University
conference name
Fonetik 2006
conference location
Lund, Sweden
conference dates
2006-06-07 - 2006-06-09
ISSN
0280-526X
project
The role of function words in spontaneous speech processing
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English
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yes
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Swedish (015011001), Centre for Languages and Literature (015016000)
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  abstract     = {{Findings from a pilot study on the distribution, function and phonetic realization of the filler EH in interviews from SweDia2000 interviews are presented. The results show that EH occurs almost exclusively after function words at the beginning of constituents. The phonetic realization of EH was seen to be of three basic forms: a middle-high vowel (e.g. [e], [ɛ], [ə]), a vowel+nasal (e.g. [ɛm], [əm], [ən]), and a vowel with a creaky phonation. The vowel+vowel realization occurs as has been shown for English before other delays and is associated with planning of complex utterances. Since creaky phonation is associated with terminality, the creaky voice realization of EH could be interpreted as signalling the juncture between the filler and an upcoming disfluency.}},
  author       = {{Horne, Merle}},
  booktitle    = {{Working Papers}},
  editor       = {{Ambrazaitis, Gilbert and Schötz, Susanne}},
  issn         = {{0280-526X}},
  keywords     = {{filled pause; filler; pause; EH; disfluency; spontaneous speech; Swedish}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{65--68}},
  publisher    = {{Center for Language and Literature, Lund University}},
  title        = {{The filler EH in Swedish}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/4502033/625558.pdf}},
  volume       = {{52}},
  year         = {{2006}},
}