Re: disfluencies/editing expressions

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:19:16 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
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> B. Garcia scripsit:
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> > "Es de" seemed very prevalent on television interviews, when the
> > interviewee had to think about something. In conversations it seemed
> > pretty much the same.
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> It's almost certainly "este", like stuttering "that is, that is" in
> English.
>
To my ears it sounded like "es de" /esDe/ all the time. I guess out of
context the pronunciation sounded like "es de")

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