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Filled pauses in learner and native English
Pylypiuk, Anna ; Gráf, Tomáš (advisor) ; Jiránková, Lucie (referee)
Filled pauses in learner and native English Abstract Current BA thesis targets to study filled pauses as a hesitation phenomenon in the speech of native and advanced non-native speakers of English. The aim of the thesis is to investigate the phenomenon of filled pauses, specifically the relation between the positions of the filled pauses in the sentences and clauses, and the roles they carry. One of the objectives of the work is to analyse filled pauses as a speech management strategy. Comparative interlanguage analysis is going to be one of the main methods employed in the paper. The research is based on the corpus LOCNEC, which is based on the transcriptions of interviews with native speakers of English and on the parallel corpus LINDSEI_CZ, which contains transcriptions of speech of Czech learners of English. For the purpose of the research, from each corpus were randomly selected 5 speakers. Their transcribed speech was examined for the instances of filled pauses, the ones that are analysed in the work are the following: er, erm, eh, em and mm. The size of the transcribed interviews in LOCNEC is 9,261 tokens, and in LINDSEI_CZ it comprises 10,048 tokens. In the study were identified 1,324 instances of filled pauses' use in the native and learner English: 656 occurrences of FPs in the analysed LOCNEC...
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