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Filled Pauses

Colin Wright
May 07, 2024
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Filled Pauses

Colin Wright
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February 6, 2024

In the field of linguistics, a “filled pause” refers to some kind of word or emphatic sound consciously or subconsciously filling what would otherwise be silence in a conversation. The most common use for such fillers, which include things like “harrumphs” and grunts and words like “um” and “uh,” is occupying a “blank” space in a conversation (sometimes …

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