Pause postures: The relationship between articulation and cognitive processes during pauses

Studies examining articulatory characteristics of pauses have identified language-specific postures of the vocal tract in inter-utterance pauses and different articulatory patterns in grammatical and non-grammatical pauses. Pause postures-specific articulatory movements that occur during pauses at strong prosodic boundaries-have been identified for Greek and German. However, the cognitive function of these articulations has not been examined so...