Filled Pauses and Syntactic Complexity
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 17 (1) , 11-16
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383097401700102
Abstract
Two studies of syntactic complexity in relation to filled pause rates are described. In the first no relation between proportion of subordinate clauses and FP rate is found. In the second it is found that FPs precede longer than average clauses. It is suggested that FPs reflect processes of syntactic organisation at the clause level, rather than the sentence level.Keywords
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