Interpreting Pauses and Ums at Turn Exchanges

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Pragmatic aspects of temporal accommodation in turn-taking (2011, background): “Finally, Fox Tree (2002) investigated how a turn-initial silent and/or filled pause affects the perception of a speaker's second turn in question-answer adjacency pairs.”
Non-lexical conversational sounds in American English (2006, background): “In particular two basic questions have not been raised, much less addressed: first, the reason for such a large variety of sounds, and second, what they all mean.”
Uniting the Tribes of Fluency to Form a Metacognitive Nation (2009, unknown): “Related research indeed suggests that speech seems truer when uttered without pauses for “ah” and “um” (e.g., Clark & Fox Tree, 2002; Fox Tree, 2002; Fox Tree & Clark, 1997).”
The role of fillers in listener attributions for speaker disfluency (2010, background): “Finally, Fox Tree (2002) also found effects of um using stimuli matched for duration, but only looked at overhearers’ offline ratings and not at their online comprehension processes.”
Judgments Concerning the Valence of Inter-Turn Silence Across Speakers of American English, Italian, and Japanese (2011, background): “The aim is to capture a possible overhearer’s perception of others’ conduct with regard to inter-turn silence (cf., Fox Tree, 2002) and to directly compare these judgments across language groups.”