Fillers, pauses and placeholders / edited by Nino Amiridze, Boyd H. Davis and Margaret MacLagan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amiridze, Nino, 1971-

Davis, Boyd H.

Maclagan, Margaret.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 93.

Typological studies in language ; v. 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word formation.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Typology (Linguistics).

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

vii, 224 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Extracts from the speech of three women with Alzheimer's Disease are analyzed in order to highlight functions of pauses, fillers, placeholders, and formulaic phrases. Although other features of their speech decline, placeholders, fillers and formulaic sequences are still used appropriately and help cement interaction by providing appropriate cues to the conversational partner. The analysis is placed within the context of analyses of pauses in disordered conversations. Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, pauses, fillers, placeholders, formulaicity.

Contents:

Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The importance of fillers to the study of syntax

2. The importance of fillers to the study of human interaction

3. The contributions of the essays

4. Conclusions

References

Parameters for typological variation of placeholders

1. Where do placeholders come from - pronouns or 'thing'-nouns?

2. Morphology - only nominal or not only nominal?

3. Morphology of verbal placeholders - how are verbal affixes attached?

4. Do placeholders show idiosyncratic morphosyntax?

5. To what extent does a placeholder mirror the grammatical marking of the delayed constituent, if at all?

6. Does the use of placeholders involve the repetition of preceding material?

7. Other possible functions of placeholders: Hesitation markers, approximators or generic words?

8. Conclusions

Acknowledgment

Abbreviations

A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction

1. Introduction

2. Three types of usage of demonstratives in the context of word-formulation trouble

2.1 The placeholder use

2.2 The interjective hesitator use

3. Discussion

3.1 Demonstratives as resources for organizing speaker-hearer interaction during word search

3.2 Implications for typological classification of demonstrative uses

3.3 Pragmaticization of hesitator demonstratives

4. Summary and conclusions

Appendix

1 Transcript symbols

2 Abbreviations used in the interlinear gloss

3 Double parentheses in the translation lines

Placeholder verbs in Modern Georgian

1. Filler items: Introduction

2. Form and use of Georgian placeholder verbs

3. The element imas- in the placeholder verbs

4. Doubly given agreement marker.

5. Future work

6. Summary

Appendix A

Some examples of Georgian placeholder verbs

From interrogatives to placeholders in Udi and Agul spontaneous narratives

2. Nominal placeholders

2.1 Semantic specification

2.2 Syntactic status of nominal placeholders

3. Verbal placeholders

3.1 Verbal placeholders in Udi

3.2 Verbal placeholders in Agul

3.3 Verbal placeholders and complex verbs

4. From placeholders to the similative construction

5. Conclusion and further research

Fillers and placeholders in Nahavaq

2. Syntactically-determined fillers

2.1 Nominal fillers

2.2 Verbal fillers

2.3 Person fillers

2.4 Location fillers

3. Placeholders

4. Prosody

5. Summary

Abbreviations used in interlinear glosses

The interactional profile of a placeholder

2. See as a placeholder

3. Recognizability and delay

3.1 Quantitative arguments for delay vs recognizability

3.2 Qualitative arguments for delay: Word search, error avoidance, number and case mismatch

4. The interactional affordances of the placeholder see

4.1 Searching for the projected noun

4.2 Achieving progressivity

4.3 Delaying for the interlocutor

5. Conclusion

Transcription and glossing convention

Fillers and their relevance in describing Sliammon Salish

2. General characteristics of Sliammon

3. Sliammon fillers

3.1 Form and distribution

3.2 The source of the filler

4. Identifying clitics

4.1 Enclitics and 'mobile' clitics

4.2 Proclitics

5. Final remarks

6. References

Symbols and abbreviations used

Pauses, fillers, placeholders and formulaicity in Alzheimer's discourse.

1. Background and rationale for study

2. Pauses

2.1 Pauses: Highlight of research trends since mid-twentieth century

2.2 Pauses as planning beyond the word

3. Source of data: Digital corpora

4. Analysis

5. Interjections, fillers, and placeholders in Alzheimer's talk

5.1 Use of interjections, fillers and placeholders

5.2 Changes in pause patterns: Changes in function

5.2.1 Analysis of GM

5.2.2 Analysis of JR

5.2.3 Analysis of MB

6. Final comments

7. Acknowledgments

A related article by the authors appeared in 2009

Transcript conventions

Abbreviation

Language index

Name index

Subject index

The series Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612895746

9781282895744

1282895745

9789027287762

9027287767

OCLC:

680036432