Filled pauses in learner and native English

• Thesis title in Czech: Vyplněné pauzy v žákovské a rodilé angličtině
• Thesis title in English: Filled pauses in learner and native English
• Key words: pauze|pauzologie|vyplněné pauzy|fenomén váhavosti|korpus|metodologie|postup značkování|korpusová lingvistika|osvojování druhého jazyka|korpus žáků|LINDSEI|LOCNEC.
• English key words: pause|pausology|filled pauses|hesitation phenomenon|corpus|methodology|procedure of coding|corpus linguistics|second language acquisition|learner corpus|LINDSEI|LOCNEC.
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2016/2017
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of the English Language and ELT Methodology (21-UAJD)
• Supervisor: PhDr. Tomáš Gráf, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 24.05.2017
• Date of assignment: 24.05.2017
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 25.05.2017
• Date and time of defence: 17.06.2019 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 23.05.2019
• Date of proceeded defence: 17.06.2019
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: PhDr. Lucie Jiránková, Ph.D.

Guidelines

The aim of the thesis is to investigate the phenomenon of filled pauses, specifically the relation between the positions of the filled pauses in the sentences and clauses, and the roles they carry. One of the objectives of the work is to analyze the filled pauses as a speech management strategy. The research is going to be based on the corpus LINDSEI_CZ, which contains trainscriptions of speeches of Czech learners of English; and on the parallel corpus LOCNEC, which is based on the transcriptions of interviews with native speakers of English. Comparative interlanguage analysis is going to be one of the main methods employed in the paper.

References

Tian, Y., Maruyama T. & Ginzburg J.(2016). Self Addressed Questions and Filled Pauses: A Cross-linguistic Investigation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. , p. 1–18.

Cevasco, J. & van den Broek P. (2016). The effect of filled pauses on the processing of the surface form and the establishment of causal connections during the comprehension of spoken expository discourse. Cognitive Processing. 17(2), p. 185–194.

García-Amaya, L.(2015). A longitudinal study of filled pauses and silent pauses in second language speech. The 7th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2015)

Adell, J., Escudero D. & Bonafonte A. (2012). Production of filled pauses in concatenative speech synthesis based on the underlying fluent sentence. Speech Communication. 54(3), p. 459-476.

Tottie, G. (2011). "Uh" and "Um" as sociolinguistic markers in British English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 16(2), p. 173-197.

O'Connell, D. & Kowal S. (2005). Uh and Um Revisited: Are They Interjections for Signaling Delay?. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 34(6), p. 555-576.

Kjellmer, G. (2003). Hesitation. In Defence of ER and ERM. English Studies. 84(2), p. 170-198.