tense pause

A disfluency judged to exist between words, part-words or non-words (i.e., interjections) where at the between-point in question there are inaudible or barely audible manifestations of muscular tension or tense articulatory contact.

Definition reprinted with permission from Hood, Stephen B. (editor) available from Stuttering Foundation of America: Stuttering Words (Publication No 2: Speech Foundation of America)

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