Fillers
Fillers are non-silent linguistic devices used in disfluencies to gain time while searching for words. In addition, they are frequently used intentionally to avoid words for reasons of politeness, ‘conspirational'motivations, or rhetorical purposes. Two syntactically distinct types of conventionaliz...
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Language Science Press
2025
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