Thee, uhh disfluency effect in preschoolers: A cue to discourse status

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dc.contributor.authorOwens, Sarah J.
dc.contributor.authorGraham, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-19T14:23:50Z
dc.date.available2020-05-19T14:23:50Z
dc.date.issued2016-01
dc.description.abstractSpeech disfluencies, such as filled pauses (ummm, uhhh), are increasingly recognized as an informative element of the speech stream. Here, we examined whether 2- and 3-year-olds expected that the presence of filled pause would signal reference to objects that are new to a discourse. Children viewed pairs of familiar objects on a screen and heard a speaker refer to one of the objects twice in succession. Next, children heard a critical utterance and were asked to look and point at either the discourse-given (i.e., previously mentioned) or discourse-new (i.e., previously unmentioned) object using a fluent ('Look at the ball!') or disfluent ('Look at thee uh ball!') expression. The results indicated that 3-year-old children, but not 2-year-old children, initially expected the speaker to continue to refer to given information in the critical utterance. Upon hearing a filled pause, however, both 2- and 3-year-old children's looking patterns reflected increased looks to discourse-new objects, although the timing of the effect differed between the age groups. Together, these findings demonstrate that young children have an emerging understanding of the role of filled pauses in speech.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOwens, S. J., & Graham, S. A. (2016). Thee, uhh disfluency effect in preschoolers: A cue to discourse status. "British Journal of Developmental Psychology". 2016: 34. pp. 388-401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12137en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12137en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/112074
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/43724
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBritish Psychological Society : British Journal of Developmental Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.titleThee, uhh disfluency effect in preschoolers: A cue to discourse statusen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
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