Hesitation marker
Revision as of 14:55, 30 October 2007 by Haspelmath (talk | contribs) (New page: A '''hesitation marker''' is a linguistic form that appears in environments in which speakers have difficulties in retrieving lexical information during speech production. ===Examples=== ...)
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.
