Filled Pauses

What we say when we say nothing at all: Clues to contact-induced language change in Spanish conversational pause-fillers featured image

What we say when we say nothing at all: Clues to contact-induced language change in Spanish conversational pause-fillers

A study of filled pause vowel quality (eh/em vs. ah/am/uh/um) among 80 Boston Spanish speakers, finding that degree of English contact predicts which variant speakers use — …

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Daniel G. Erker