Disfluency in Swedish human–human and human–machine travel booking dialogues

摘要: This thesis studies disfluency in spontaneous Swedish speech, i.e., the occurrence of hesitation phenomena like eh, oh, truncated words, repetitions and repairs, mispronunciations, words so on. The is divided into three parts: PART I provides background, both concerning scientific, personal industrial–academic aspects Tuning quotes, Preamble Introduction (chapter 1). II consists one chapter only, 2, which dives etiology disfluency. Consequently it describes previous research on disfluencies, also including areas that are not main focus present tome, stuttering, psychotherapy, philosophy, neurology, discourse perspectives, speech production, application-driven cognitive aspects, A discussion terminology definitions provided. goal this to provide as broad a picture possible phenomenon disfluency, how all those different varying perspectives related each other. III linguistic data studied analyzed thesis, with following structure: Chapter 3 were collected, for what reason. Sum totals post-processing method described. 4 transcribed, annotated analyzed. labeling described detail, employed do frequency counts. 5 presents analysis results categories disfluencies. Besides general distribution types inter- intra-corpus presented, co-occurrences Also, intra-speaker differences discussed. 6 discusses results, mainly light research. Reasons observed frequencies proposed, their relation language typology, well syntactic, morphological phonetic reasons phenomena. Future work envisaged, set, set given extended think should be carried out, but where fails, way or another, meet requirements such studies. Appendices 1–4 list sum total (apart from Tok Pisin data). Appendix an example full human–computer dialogue.