Abstract
It has been suggested (Maclay & Osgood, 1959) that filled pauses (FPs) are signals by the speaker that he has not finished, even though he has paused; previous work (Lalljee & Cook, 1969) has not confirmed this. It was decided to test the hypothesis again, by determining whether FPs were interpreted by listeners as meaning that the speaker had not finished. The listeners were asked to decide when the speaker had finished his utterance, and silent and filled pauses were inserted to see whether this affected their decision. According to the hypothesis, they should think the speaker has finished if a silent pause occurs in the utterance, and should not think he has finished if an filled pause occurs.
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