Spoken language is full of disfluencies. A frequent sound expressing hesitation is uh (or any variant thereof), but its linguistic status is debated. This article offers a new perspective on hesitation particles. First, the position is defended that they are linguistic signals, hence words, and it is shown that they belong to the larger class of interjections on the basis of a number of qualita...

In this paper, the distribution of interjections over the clause is studied within the context of a topological framework. For this study authentic data were extracted from a corpus comprising one million words of written material and 174,000 words of spoken material. To explain this distribution we study the influence of the text type in which an interjection is found, the length of the interj...

It has been hypothesized [5,7] that the information contained by the placement and content of filled pauses, interjections, and parentheticals is useful in the parsing of conversational language. To investigate the impact of the inclusion of such information on the performance of a parser, we have built wrappers to work between the "Switchboard" corpus [3] and an existing parser [1]. These wrap...

The paper discusses the derivational and semantic characteristics of zoonymous onomatopoeia, based on imitation animal sounds. According to their morphological communicative features, these units are primarily interjections. Nevertheless, from other onomatopoeic words, onomatopoeias stand out for productivity characteristics. methodology applied in work includes usual procedures semantic-deriva...