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Native speakers of English (N = 40) reported occurrence and estimated duration of pauses for English and German spontaneous dialogue. Occurrence was underestimated significantly more for the German than for the English. Duration was underestimated significantly more for the English than for the German, and for positions where no actual pauses occurred (false positives) than for positions where there were actual pauses. The results for the English sample only are compared with similar estimates based on ethnomethodological transcriptional procedures (N = 7). Both methods are found to yield similarly nonveridical reported occurrence and estimated duration.
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Friedman, L.A., O’Connell, D.C. Pause reports for spontaneous dialogic speech. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 29, 223–225 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342684
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