Semaq Beri hunter - gatherers, who live in tropical forests on the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, name various odors as easily as they name colors, say psycholinguist Asifa Majid and linguist Nicole Kruspe. (sciencenews.org)
A pause is silent by definition, making the term «filled pause» anomalous.59 As described by psycholinguists Daniel C. O'Connell and Sabine Kowal, «fillers are neither pauses nor are they used necessarily where there would otherwise be a silence; they are not a sort of putty used to fill the cracks in window frames — to stuff something into a silence. (slaw.ca)
Steven Pinker, a prominent and prolific psycholinguist, explores the question of style with both vivacity and vigor, applying the findings in his field and questioning rules that have stood the test of time. (entrepreneur.com)