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The Effects of Silent Pauses on Speech Planning
The data is very different from what people think of those. People don't like them, but they are linguistically and cognitively beneficial. They seem to work as speech planning devices. You tend to say them before more difficult, more abstract, less common, less familiar words. And also when you're constructing very long, complex syntactic structures.
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