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Fillers, pauses and placeholders /
Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any resemb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
[2010]
©2010 |
| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 93. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Fillers are items that speakers insert in spontaneous speech as a repair strategy. Types of fillers include hesitation markers and placeholders. Both are used to fill pauses that arise during planning problems or in lexical retrieval failure. However, while hesitation markers may not bear any resemblance to lexical items they replace, placeholders typically share some morphosyntactic properties with the target form. Additionally, fillers can function as a pragmatic tool, in order to replace lexical items that the speaker wants to avoid mentioning for some reason. The present volume is the firs. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027287762 9027287767 9781282895744 1282895745 9786612895746 6612895748 |