Chapter 2
Definitions and corpus-based approaches to fluency and disfluency
Article outline
- 2.1Disfluency or repair? Levelt’s legacy
- 2.2
Holistic definitions of fluency
- 2.3
Componential approaches to fluency and disfluency
- 2.3.1Qualitative components of perception
- 2.3.2Quantitative components of production
- 2.3.2.1Disfluencies as removable errors
- 2.3.2.2The functional ambivalence of disfluencies
- 2.3.3Götz’s qualitative-quantitative approach
- 2.4Synthesis: Definition adopted in this work
- 2.5A usage-based account of (dis)fluency
- 2.5.1
Key notions in usage-based linguistics
- 2.5.2From schemas to sequences of fluencemes
- 2.5.3Variation in context(s)
- 2.5.4Accessing fluency through frequency
- 2.6Summary and hypotheses
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Notes