How do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?
How do you call the words a speaker uses when he is nervous, like "um", "ah", "like"?
In my native language there's a word for that kind of words, but I'm not sure how they are called in english.
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Filler words is the most correct answer because words like "like" do actually have meaning, but there is also something called embololalia (also spelled embolalia), the insertion of meaningless sounds/words into speech, which would include "uh, ah, mmm," etc.
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