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Publication details [#31278]

Clark, Herbert H. and Jean E. Fox Tree. 2002. Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking. Cognition 83 (3) : 74–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

holding the floor | speaker reference | spontaneous discourse

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0010-0277 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

This paper investigates the proposal that speakers use 'uh' and 'um' to announce a minor (uh), or major (um), delay in speaking. It is argued that 'uh' and 'um' are conventional English words, and speakers plan for, formulate, and produce them just as they would any word.