Filled Pauses as a Special Case of Automatic Speech Behaviors and the Effect of Parkinson's Disease.

Conclusions Producing fewer marked silent pauses, coupled with longer silent pauses, reduces natural cues to discourse and puts people with PD at greater risk of sounding unnatural and losing their communicative turn. These results suggest that automatic responses regarding speech production difficulties are impaired by PD. This interpretation fits with nonspeech literature where automatic responses have been demonstrated to be impaired in PD. PMID: 31306603 [PubMed - in process]
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Tags: Am J Speech Lang Pathol Source Type: research