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Publication details [#56859]

Arciuli, Joanne, David Mallard and Gina Villar. 2012. Use of “um” in the deceptive speech of a convicted murderer. Applied Psycholinguistics 33 (1) : 83–95.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aggression | deceiving | filled pause | language use | law

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores the use of the so-called filler “um” in a convicted murderer's externally verifiable high-stakes authentic versus deceptive speech. It is argued that “um” may be under strategic speaker control.