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Anna Papafragou

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Open access Sep 2026

Does disfluency affect social judgments and decisions? Evidence from spontaneous speech.

Disfluency in speech (e.g., English um and uh, also known as filled pauses) has long been argued to have social costs for the speaker. However, this conclusion is based on a limited set of measures obtained for scripted, lab-recorded speech. Here, using stimuli from spontaneous speech and an expanded set of social trai...

Jonathan Him Nok Lee, Anna Papafragou · Cognition · 0 citations

Jul 2026

Children use speaker knowledge to learn novel subordinate vs. basic-level nouns.

Children typically prefer the so-called "basic"-level (e.g., dog) versus narrower subordinate (e.g., dalmatian) meanings in acquisition. Subordinate conjectures are facilitated by contrast; for example, when shown a dalmatian and a corgi each labelled "dax" and "wug," learners take "dax" to mean dalmatian, as opposed t...

June Choe, Anna Papafragou · Cognitive Psychology · 0 citations