{"id":4761,"date":"2004-01-10T08:35:51","date_gmt":"2004-01-10T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2004-01-10T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2004-01-10T15:35:51","slug":"disfluencies_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/10\/disfluencies_in.html","title":{"rendered":"Disfluencies in the news!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite words these days, here’s an interesting article on international disfluencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though a bane to teachers of public speaking, people around the world fill pauses in their own languages as naturally as watermelons have seeds. In Britain they say uh <\/i>but spell it er<\/i>, just as they pronounce er <\/i>in butter.
\nThe French say something that sounds like euh<\/i>, and Hebrew speakers say ehhh<\/i>. Serbs and Croats say ovay<\/i>, and the Turks say mmmmm<\/i>. The Japanese say eto <\/i>(eh-to) and ano <\/i>(ah-no), the Spanish este<\/i>, and Mandarin speakers neige <\/i>(NEH-guh) and jiege <\/i>(JEH-guh). In Dutch and German you can say uh, um, mmm<\/i>. In Swedish it’s eh, ah, aah, m, mm, hmm, ooh, a<\/i> and oh<\/i>; in Norwegian, e, eh, m<\/i> and hm<\/i>.
\nThese interruptions, it turns out, plague machines more than people \u2014 speech-recognition systems in particular \u2014 so researchers have increasingly been turning their attention to uh and um (among other so-called disfluencies).<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of study of these sorts of things today, including whether such discourse markers actually convey information themselves during conversations. Interesting.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite words these days, here’s an interesting article on international disfluencies. 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