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Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives (2022)
Journal Article
Beeching, K., Howie, G., Kirjavainen, M., & Piasecki, A. E. (2022). Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 181-194. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00025.bee

Despite being the object of considerable research effort over several decades, the status and function of discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), fillers and filled pause (FPs) continue to be at the forefront of an expanding field of scholarly debate.... Read More about Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives.

Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children (2022)
Journal Article
Beeching, K., & Crible, L. (2022). Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children. Pragmatics and Cognition, 29(2), 195-221. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21027.bee

Diachronic studies of discourse markers suggest they follow a unidirectional developmental path, from propositional to textual and expressive uses. The present study tests whether children acquire the propositional (literal) before the expressive (pr... Read More about Crosslinguistic paths of pragmatic development The acquisition of actually and en fait by British and French children.

Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um (2021)
Journal Article
Kirjavainen, M., Crible, L., & Beeching, K. (2022). Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um. Language and Speech, 65(2), 263-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211011201

The current paper presents three studies that investigated the effect of exposure on the mental representations of filled pauses (um/uh). In Study 1, a corpus analysis identified the frequency of co-occurrence of filled pauses with words located imme... Read More about Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um.