Disfluency Rates in Conversation: Effects of Age, Relationship, Topic, Role, and Gender

By H. Bortfeld, Silvia D. Leon, Jonathan E. Bloom, Michael F. Schober, Susan E. Brennan. Language and Speech, 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Fluency in Second Language Testing: Insights From Different Disciplines (2018, background): “…speaking style may be the result of several speaker characteristics (Holtgraves, 2001, p. 65), such as age (Bortfeld et al., 2001), gender (Bortfeld et al., 2001; Branigan, Lickley, & McKelvie, 1999), dialect, socioeconomic status (e.g., Erickson, Lind, Johnson, & O’Barr, 1978), and…”
Pragmatic aspects of temporal accommodation in turn-taking (2011, background): “CFs are also necessary in managing spontaneous-like conversations (Bortfeld et al., 2001; Taboada, 2006), and thus, in general, should be ''understood as devices with important turn-organizational uses'' (Sacks et al., 1974:720).”
Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues (2004, background): “Bortfeld et al. (1999) that men were more disfluent than women overall.”
Predicting pauses in L1 and L2 speech: the effects of utterance boundaries and word frequency (2016, positive): “So could one simply count the number of disfluencies such as silent and filled pauses to distinguish between L1 and L2 speech or to measure a fluency aspect of L2 proficiency? The answer is no, because between L1 speakers there are also differences in levels of fluency (Bortfeld et al. 2001) and bet”
Age-related effects on speech production: A review (2006, methodology): “Bortfeld et al. (2001) engaged pairs of young (mean age: 28 years), middle- Job No. 3976 MFK-Mendip Page: 243 of 290 Date: 25/10/05 Time: 12:45pm Job ID: LANGUAGE 007048 AGEING AND SPEECH PRODUCTION 243 2 Some studies have shown that there are biases in how specific phonemes influence voice onsets…”