Stuck with a word on the tip of your tongue when talking to a toddler? Don't worry — a new study finds that hesitant speech may help the kid learn new vocabulary. Language disfluencies, or the "ums" ...

Last week I described one of the low points of my life as a scintillating conversationalist. Me: Hi. Other person: Hi. Me: Hi. (OK, you could also call it a “hi point” if you wanted to make fun.) A ...

So uh, when it comes to the um, filler words that men and women use, there are some uh, pretty big differences, according to a UPenn professor. Mark Liberman, who teachers linguistics at Penn, took a ...

This article originally appeared in Science of Us. I suspect men use /uh/ as a place-holder. Women use /um/ as a backchannel indicating, “that’s interesting, I’m thinking about it.” “So the suggestion ...

Well, good afternoon. Um uh My, my name is County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and uh on behalf of the folks of Allegheny County and uh this entire community, this is certainly *** sad, sad day and *** ...

Stuck with a word on the tip of your tongue when talking to a toddler? Don't worry — a new study finds that hesitant speech may help the kid learn new vocabulary. Language disfluencies, or the "ums" ...

Stuck with a word on the tip of your tongue when talking to a toddler? Don't worry — a new study finds that hesitant speech may help the kid learn new vocabulary. Language disfluencies, or the "ums" ...