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  2. Filler (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Filler words generally contain little to no lexical content, but instead provide clues to the listener about how they should interpret what the speaker has said. [5] The actual words that people use may change (such as the increasing use of like), but the meaning and the reasons for using them do not change. [6]

  3. Filler text - Wikipedia

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    Filler text (also placeholder text or dummy text) is text that shares some characteristics of a real written text, but is random or otherwise generated. It may be used to display a sample of fonts , generate text for testing, or to spoof an e-mail spam filter .

  4. Formulaic language - Wikipedia

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    Bailey & Ferriera's (2007) paper [16] found that there is little evidence to suggest that the use of filler words are intentional in speech and that they should not be considered as words in the conventional sense. Filler words can be non-lexical or lexical. [15] "Non-lexical fillers" are those recognized as not being words, "lexical fillers ...

  5. Filler words - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 7 May 2006, at 12:07 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply ...

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    A TikToker is going viral with her extremely easy trick for removing "filler words" from your vocabulary. Public speaking expert reveals major trick to remove ‘filler words’ from your ...

  7. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

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  9. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Bacon's essays, published in book form in 1597 (only five years after the death of Montaigne, containing the first ten of his essays), [7] 1612, and 1625, were the first works in English that described themselves as essays. Ben Jonson first used the word essayist in 1609, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Other English essayists ...