Non-fluency features
- Created by: Kelly
- Created on: 12-01-15 11:48
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- Non-Fluency Features
- False Starts
- Occur when an utterance is started one way, is unfinished and then completely abandoned for another structure
- 'My Mum won't (.) well we want'
- Occur when an utterance is started one way, is unfinished and then completely abandoned for another structure
- Fillers
- Think of sound
- "um.." and "er.."
- Used to give a speaker thinking time
- Think of sound
- Hesitations
- Sounds which aren't words are used to fill pauses
- In Britain, these sounds tend to be represented by: er, erm and em
- Pause Fillers
- One of the ways to fill what could be an embarrassing silence with extra words
- Confined to words such as...
- Well
- Sort of
- Like
- They also functions. e.g. helping to start off an utterance
- Initiators like: well
- Make the speaker sound less pedantic
- Softeners like sort off
- Indicating the end of an utterance
- e.g. 'like' in some parts of the country
- Indicating the end of an utterance
- Softeners like sort off
- Make the speaker sound less pedantic
- Indicating the end of an utterance
- e.g. 'like' in some parts of the country
- Make the speaker sound less pedantic
- Softeners like sort off
- Softeners like sort off
- Initiators like: well
- Thought as of fairly meaningless in addition to the main utterance
- Non-fluent pausing
- Occurs in the middle of a structure where no punctuation would occur in writing
- "It's Southall's er (.) goal kick."
- Pausing can also be non-fluent if there are no pauses where punctuation would normally occur in writing
- "there is a free kick against Viv Anderson Everton don't like that decision."
- While if it was written
- "there is a free kick against Viv Anderson, Everton don't like that decision."
- While if it was written
- "there is a free kick against Viv Anderson Everton don't like that decision."
- Some individuals call non-fluent pauses, hesitations
- Occurs in the middle of a structure where no punctuation would occur in writing
- Recycling
- Similar to repetition
- but it involves a hitch in production
- Where the initial sound(s) of a word are repeated before the speaker managed to get the word out
- 'th. the hairs'
- NOT A KIND OF STAMMERINAND STUTTERING
- Where the initial sound(s) of a word are repeated before the speaker managed to get the word out
- but it involves a hitch in production
- Similar to repetition
- Repetition
- In this context is unintentional and involves the repetition of identical words and structures next to eahc othe
- 'her pillow is her pillow'
- My favorite painting is the painting I did of my dog in that painting in my den.
- 'her pillow is her pillow'
- In this context is unintentional and involves the repetition of identical words and structures next to eahc othe
- Vague Completers
- "and all that"
- "and everything"
- Used to round off an utterance
- Self corrections or repairs
- When the speaker realizes they have made a mistake and correct it
- 'you've got the stirrups and (.) i mean the girth."
- When the speaker realizes they have made a mistake and correct it
- False Starts
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