抄録
Speech disfluency has lately attracted considerable attention in the study of spontaneous speech. In one tradition, disfluencies are treated as the outcome of cognitive processes that run purely inside the speaker. In a second tradition, they are viewed as the result of certain strategies by which the speaker can have an effect on the addressees. This paper reviews our recent studies on disfluencies in Japanese spontaneous speech, putting particular emphasis on their functions in speech communication. Three studies, on word repetitions, fillers, and prolongation, are described in detail and discussed from the viewpoint of communicative strategies.
