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Ideas & Theories

Many visitors to the FPRC have their own hypotheses about filled pauses and other hesitation phenomena based on their own experience.

98/02/19 - "I...do face-to-face and telephone interviewing"
98/02/19 - "is saying 'like' and 'you know' that same thing?"
98/02/20 - "I, uh,...agreed with the 'conversational turn' reason"
98/02/20 - "If you have ever lived in a foreign country..."
98/02/22 - "I am taking a course on 'Speech and Body Language'..."
98/02/24 - "whether FP rate increases when...being monitored."
98/02/25 - "'Don't Say UM.'"
98/02/26 - "You've made something annoying sound, um, interesting!"
98/03/01 - "I work in sales and often find myself using filled pauses"
98/03/03 - "I am a RN-BSN."
98/03/06 - "FP's are utilized by persons who have no idea..."
98/03/06 - "I...liken a spoken FP to the loading of a web page"
98/03/09 - "Are we as a linguistic group too enamored of the written  text?"
98/03/10 - "My comment has to do with regionalism"
98/03/10 - "the reason most pause fillers are pronounced 'er'"
98/03/11 - "I...have the habit of ending my sentences with 'so-'"
98/03/13 - "lawyers...use a filled pause to have more time to make things  up."
98/03/13 - "FP's in telephone conversations"
98/03/13 - " I felt...that her um's were more important than the advice she  gave"
98/03/14 - "'audible pauses'...seems more fitting"
98/03/14 - "I used the term 'okay' 87 times in 50 minutes."
98/03/14 - "I take issue with this statement...in the feedback archives"
98/03/15 - "Concerned speakers try hard to eliminate filled pauses"
98/03/15 - "the companion cannot stand lapses in the conversation"
98/03/16 - "there is most often a quick glance up"
98/03/16 - "the use of filled pauses in therapy"
98/03/18 - "...is there any data on the frequency of usuage before the FPs  become noticable?"
98/03/19 - "Why do some people do more FPs than others?"
98/10/28 - "I would like to know what the most common fp's are."
98/11/14 - "...you can use the 'pregnant pause' to hold the floor"
98/11/16 - "...using...filled pauses from one's native language"

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