The relationship between age and pauses in retold stories
Abstract
While the interplay between age and pauses has been extensively explored, only few studies on these topics have also taken retold stories into account. From a longitudinal perspective, retellings can be fruitfully applied to the investigation of retrieval and reconstruction processes of memory traces. By comparing the number, duration and position of silent pauses occurring in retold stories as well as in their preceding and subsequent passages, I will show that the higher stability of retold memories brings along a lower number of silent pauses in retellings as well the predominance of pauses occurring at the end of intonation phrases, thus contributing to the impression of a more fluent speech.
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