Filler Word/Phrase
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A Filler Word/Phrase is a word/phrase that conversationists use to signal that they are pausing to think but are not finished speaking
- Example(s):
- "Ummmm".
- "You know".
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Content Word, Function Word, Pronoun, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Understanding, Natural Language Parsing.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_(linguistics) Retrieved:2023-8-13.
- In linguistics, a filler, filled pause, hesitation marker or planner (sometimes called crutches) is a sound or word that participants in a conversation use to signal that they are pausing to think but are not finished speaking.[1] [2] These are not to be confused with placeholder names, such as thingamajig, whatchamacallit, whosawhatsa and whats'isface, which refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown. Fillers fall into the category of formulaic language, and different languages have different characteristic filler sounds. The term filler also has a separate use in the syntactic description of wh-movement constructions (see below).
- ↑ Juan, Stephen (2010). "Why do we say 'um', 'er', or 'ah' when we hesitate in speaking?"
- ↑ Tottie, Gunnel (2016). "Planning what to say: Uh and um among the pragmatic markers". In Kaltenbock, Gunther; Keizer, Evelien; Lohmann, Arne (eds.). Outside the Clause: Form and Function of Extra-Clausal Constituents. pp. 97–122.