A contrastive study on speech disfluencies in English and Japanese

当演讲者在继续演讲时遇到困难，他们就会犹豫。像“eeto”这样的填充词在日语中很常见。我调查了影响短语边界填充词出现的因素，发现修饰短语到中心语之间的距离越大，修饰短语之后的填充率就越高。结果表明，说话人想要传达的以下信息越复杂，就越难将信息编码成语音，说话人越有可能使用填充语。结果显示了填充停顿的发生规律，这些停顿看起来似乎是随机的。

When speakers have troubles continuing their speeches, they hesitate. Fillers such as "eeto" are commonly uttered in Japanese. I investigated factors affecting the occurrence of fillers at phrase boundaries and found that the larger the distance between modifying phrases and the heads, the higher the filler rates immediately after the modifying phrases. The results indicate that the more complex the following messages that speakers want to convey, the harder it becomes to encode the message into speech, and the more likely speakers are to use fillers. The results show the regularity of the occurrence of filled pauses, which seem to appear at random at a glance.