18-41 Segment 1: Stutters, Stammers, and Vocal Fillers
If you’ve had to speak in public, you know the nerves that come with public speaking. So you probably also know the pain of umming, uhhing, or misspeaking. We explore where these vocal blunders come from and what they might mean.
Guest:
Michael Erard, author, Um: Slips, Stumbles and Verbal Blunders and What They Mean
Reed has been reporting on medicine since 1983, when he became host/producer of the Associated Press Radio Network’s daily health feature. Since 1992, Pence has been host and lead producer of Radio Health Journal. His work has won numerous local and national awards. He was part of a team sharing the National Award for Enterprise Reporting from the Associated Press and is a seven-time winner of the Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club.
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