A contrastive study on speech disfluencies in English and Japanese

当演讲者难以继续他们的演讲时，他们会犹豫。像“eeto”这样的填词在日语中很常见。我研究了影响短语边界填充物发生的因素，发现修饰短语与头部之间的距离越大，修饰短语后立即填充率越高。结果表明，说话者想要传达的信息越复杂，将信息编码成语音就越困难，说话者更有可能使用填充语。结果显示了填充停顿的发生规律，乍一看似乎是随机出现的。

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.