Pardon my disfluency: The impact of disfluency effects on the perception of speaker competence and confidence

Ambika Kirkland, Joakim Gustafson, Éva Székely

Interspeech 2023

Fluent: Good morning everyone and welcome to the first lecture of Understanding the Early Universe. In this lecture we'll discuss how scientists can measure the echoes of the distant past. Let's start by learning the definitions of some important terms. The number that helps us estimate how fast the universe is expanding is called the Hubble constant. What this constant tells us is that there's a direct relationship between a galaxy's distance and how quickly it's moving away from us.

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Listening test stimuli

Repetitions and their frequencies of repetition per 1000 words in Clark and Wasow, 1998 [1]

[1] H. H. Clark and T. Wasow, “Repeating words in spontaneous speech,” Cognitive Psychology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 201-242, 1998.