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From: Emily Garnett
Date: 28 Apr 2010
Time: 17:09:00 -0500
Remote Name: 173.81.117.198
Hi Ellen. Most previous studies did not find a difference in hesitations. They did in other types of disfluencies, but not hesitations. As for if they were noticeable or not, I imagine that would vary. If a clutterer had very few hesitations that were less than one second, perhaps not. If they were very frequent, perhaps so. One second is a lot longer than a person might think! :) Additionally, I didn't intend to imply that only hesitations of shorter than one second should be the only thing that is included in the definition of hesitations. Nor was that the only type included in my study. I included hesitations of any duration. I was simply stating that perhaps in cluttering, not ALL of the hesitations are longer than one second (which is the SDA criteria). I would venture that clutterers have hesitations both longer AND shorter than one second in their speech. Thanks for the interesting question!