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A hesitation marker is a linguistic form that appears in environments in which speakers have difficulties in retrieving lexical information during speech production.
Examples
English whatchamacallit, thingamy, German Dingens
Reference
- Hayashi, Makoto & Yoon, Kyung-eun. 2006. A cross-linguistic exploration of demonstratives in interaction. Studies in Language 30:485-540.
