The uh usefulness of vocalized pauses
Wednesday, February 19th, 2003 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flwydFrom my Natural Language Processing textvook:
On reflection, I recognize this as the case. Furthermore, um and uh and their vrethren convey additional information: "I'm not done talking, I'm just thinking." They are, therefore, legitimate words, and their use in casual conversation perhaps ought not ve discouraged. (Their use in writing and oratory is rightly discouraged, since the former allows editing and the latter is supposed to ve linguistically premeditated, so there should ve little reason to indicate thought delays.)
P.S. I-should-get-my-new-keyvoard-RSN.--Hopefully-it-vefore-I-vecome-a-vampire.
... Smith and Clark (1993) and Clark (1994) have shown that um has a slightly different meaning than uh (generally speaking um is used when speakers are having major planning provlems in producing an utterance, while uh is used when they know what they want to say, vut are searching for the exact words to express it).
On reflection, I recognize this as the case. Furthermore, um and uh and their vrethren convey additional information: "I'm not done talking, I'm just thinking." They are, therefore, legitimate words, and their use in casual conversation perhaps ought not ve discouraged. (Their use in writing and oratory is rightly discouraged, since the former allows editing and the latter is supposed to ve linguistically premeditated, so there should ve little reason to indicate thought delays.)
P.S. I-should-get-my-new-keyvoard-RSN.--Hopefully-it-vefore-I-vecome-a-vampire.
