This study investigates the interplay of spoken and gestural hesitations under varying amounts cognitive load. We argue that not only fillers silences, as most common hesitations, are directly related to speech pausing behavior, but hesitation lengthening is well. designed a resource-management card game method elicit ecologically valid behavior while being able finely control load via complexi...

Reproductive health is always becoming an issue for adolescence. Lack of knowledge, permissive attitude, easy access to pornography and low parental supervision reported as a determinant risky sexual behavior in This study aimed investigate mother’s perspectives discussing reproductive issues with their children aged 9-11 years old. The respondents were 8.046 mothers who had old Semarang, taken...

BACKGROUND The intensity, spread, and effects of public opinion about vaccines are growing as new modes of communication speed up information sharing, contributing to vaccine hesitancy, refusals, and disease outbreaks. We aimed to develop a new application of existing surveillance systems to detect and characterise early signs of vaccine issues. We also aimed to develop a typology of concerns a...

Public acceptance of vaccination has never been a given. Today there is a set of societal circumstances that may contribute to a growing parental hesitancy about vaccination. These include: increasingly 'crowded' vaccination schedules; lower prevalence of vaccine-preventable diseases; greater access to, and more rapid dissemination of, vaccine-critical messages via digital networks; hyper-vigil...

Such hesitation phenomena as filled pauses (e.g., uh, um) have been argued to serve a pragmatic role as markers of impending hesitation on the part of the speaker (Smith and Clark, 1993; Clark and Fox Tree, 2002). Lengthenings (e.g., a:nd, we:ll)—also hesitation phenomena—are arguably similar. In short, these hesitation markers constitute information from which listeners make inferences. The pr...

Health-care delivery is undergoing significant evolution and change. Task substitution has resulted in some practitioner groups expanding their scope of practice by assuming more complex clinical roles, new practitioner groups have emerged, and consumer-driven demand has changed the way the public engage with health practitioners and the way many health-care services are delivered. Using Austra...

This paper describes the acoustic characteristics of hesitations in Estonian spontaneous speech. We especially investigate duration, fundamental frequency, and first two formant analyses. Most frequent hesitations can be expressed by lengthened phonemes such as /ää/, /ee/, /õõ/, and /mm/. We compare lengthened phoneme hesitations with their related phonemes. The results from our preliminary hes...