Spontaneities

Language Log 2025-10-20

Summary:

Over the years, I've posted several times about the problematic word (and concept) disfluency — there's a too-long list at the end of "Spontaneous (dis)fluency" (8/27/2025). Among other ideas, I've suggested using the term interpolations (see this 2019 post for example). But as far as I can tell, this suggestion has had no impact on […]

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Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

10/20/2025, 12:30

Date published:

10/20/2025, 08:30