On filled-pauses and prolongations in European Portuguese. Moniz, H., Mata, A. I., & Viana, M. d. C. In Interspeech 2007. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, pages 2645–2648, 2007.
On filled-pauses and prolongations in European Portuguese [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This paper reports preliminary results from a study of disfluencies in European Portuguese, based on a corpus of prepared (non-scripted) and spontaneous oral presentations in high school context. We will focus on the contextual distribution and temporal patterns of filled pauses and segmental prolongations, as well as on the way those are rated by listeners. Results suggest that filled pauses and segmental prolongations behave alike, have similar functions and may be considered in complementary distribution, obeying general syntactic and prosodic constraints.

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