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The purpose of this study was to classify and characterize hesitation phenomena in Japanese speech. Twenty college students were asked to make a story about a series of pictures. The types of hesitation which were also found in English speech were identified in the stories. Then they were analyzed further in terms of the kinds of lexical unit and the location in a sentence. The major results were as follows: (a) repetitions and false starts occurred at nouns more frequently than at the members of Jodoshi-Joshirui (one of functional word classes) and (b) significantly larger parts of both filled and unfilled pauses were located between phrases than within them. Finally, functional role of each type in speech production was discussed.
