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People around the world fill pauses in their own languages as naturally as watermelons have seeds. In Britain they say “uh” but spell it “er,” … “uh” is the only word that’s universal across languages (Erard, 2007, p. 55).
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O’Connell, D.C., Kowal, S. (2008). Fillers. In: Communicating with One Another. Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77632-3_13
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