Disfluencies in writing - are they like disfluencies in speaking
Author
Editor
- Robin Lickley
Summary, in English
This paper presents a study of disfluencies in written language
production. Texts from ten university students are compared to data
from people who almost never use writing, namely adult dyslexics and
to texts from people who communicate in writing under real-time
constraints every day, namely deaf whose main use of writing is text
telephone conversations. This paper investigates which types of
disfluencies occur in writing, where they occur, their frequencies and
their durations. Further, this paper investigates how different text
types and the specific characteristics of deaf and dyslexic writers
influence the distribution of disfluencies. The results are discussed
in relation to earlier work on disfluencies in speaking.
production. Texts from ten university students are compared to data
from people who almost never use writing, namely adult dyslexics and
to texts from people who communicate in writing under real-time
constraints every day, namely deaf whose main use of writing is text
telephone conversations. This paper investigates which types of
disfluencies occur in writing, where they occur, their frequencies and
their durations. Further, this paper investigates how different text
types and the specific characteristics of deaf and dyslexic writers
influence the distribution of disfluencies. The results are discussed
in relation to earlier work on disfluencies in speaking.
Department/s
Publishing year
2001
Language
English
Pages
85-88
Publication/Series
Proceedings from DISS'01 Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech, ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop
Links
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
University of Edinburgh
Topic
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Keywords
- disfluencies
- language production
- writing process
Status
Published