Valeria Santos

Speech Disfluencies and LLM Confidence: Length Bias and Pragmatic Insensitivity in Brazilian Portuguese

Training Large Language Models (LLMs) relies predominantly on written, curated corpora, which may limit their reliability on sponta-neous speech. Oral language exhibits real-time planning markers — filled pauses, repetitions, false starts, and vowel lengthenings — that modulate epistemic commitment. This pilot study in...