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The filler EH in Swedish

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Author

Editor

  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis
  • Susanne Schötz

Summary, in English

Findings from a pilot study on the distribution, function and phonetic realization of the filler EH in interviews from SweDia2000 interviews are presented. The results show that EH occurs almost exclusively after function words at the beginning of constituents. The phonetic realization of EH was seen to be of three basic forms: a middle-high vowel (e.g. [e], [ɛ], [ə]), a vowel+nasal (e.g. [ɛm], [əm], [ən]), and a vowel with a creaky phonation. The vowel+vowel realization occurs as has been shown for English before other delays and is associated with planning of complex utterances. Since creaky phonation is associated with terminality, the creaky voice realization of EH could be interpreted as signalling the juncture between the filler and an upcoming disfluency.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

65-68

Publication/Series

Working Papers

Volume

52

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Center for Language and Literature, Lund University

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • filled pause
  • filler
  • pause
  • EH
  • disfluency
  • spontaneous speech
  • Swedish

Conference name

Fonetik 2006

Conference date

2006-06-07 - 2006-06-09

Conference place

Lund, Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • The role of function words in spontaneous speech processing

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0280-526X