Re: [ARSCLIST] earliest recording of "uh"/"um"/other disfluency?

[David Lewis <davlew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.nps.gov/edis/audio/SRP-0155-06.mp3

Thomas Edison's "Around the World on the Phonograph" cylinder.
Allegedly made late October 1888.

David N. Lewis
Assistant Classical Editor
All Media Guide


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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] earliest recording of "uh"/"um"/other disfluency?


On 18/06/04, Michael Erard wrote:

> I am a writer based in Austin, Texas, who is working on a book about
> verbal blundering, including speech slips and speech disfluencies. I
> wonder if you can help me find early recorded examples of these
> features of spoken language, including:
>
> uh, um, and other filled pauses repeated words ("I went went to the
> store") restarted sentences ("The main thing is -- Look at it this
> way...") stuttering (both by "normal" speakers and by people who
> stutter) silent pauses (not for effect, but because the speaker is
> looking for a word)

The famous Brahms cylinder from 1889 includes a restart.

http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~brg/brahms2.html

Regards
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Don Cox
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