| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Research Abstract |
When speakers have troubles continuing their speeches, they hesitate. Fillers such as "eeto" are commonly uttered in Japanese. I investigated factors affecting the occurrence of fillers at phrase boundaries and found that the larger the distance between modifying phrases and the heads, the higher the filler rates immediately after the modifying phrases. The results indicate that the more complex the following messages that speakers want to convey, the harder it becomes to encode the message into speech, and the more likely speakers are to use fillers. The results show the regularity of the occurrence of filled pauses, which seem to appear at random at a glance.
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