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email: evgeniia.diachek@vanderbilt.edu **Abstract:** Language production and comprehension data shows that different types of disfluencies appear in different contexts and as a result, signal different meanings. Complementary work probing recognition memory for words preceded by disfluency, shows a memory benefit for words preceded by fillers and pauses but not disfluent repetitions. Here we test the hypothesis that if listeners are sensitive to the regularities in form-meaning mappings in the input, then different types of disfluencies should produce different memory benefits. Specifically, we predicted that fillers and pauses should produce better memory than repetitions because they signal new, attention-worthy information. We conducted two experiments directly comparing the relative memorial benefits of three disfluency types (fillers, pauses, and repetitions). We found that the words directly preceded by a disfluency are remembered better than the words coming from the fluent sentences. This effect was observed regardless of the disfluency type, which suggests that any speaker hesitation may be sufficient to promote subsequent memory for the upcoming linguistic material.
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