General introduction -- Prospectus for a science of pausology -- First section: General aspects -- The place of pragmatics in the syntactic and semantic organization of language -- Slips of the tongue as neuromuscular evidence for a model of speech production -- Grammatical incoherence -- The competing plans hypothesis: An heuristic viewpoint on the causes of errors in speech -- Models of verbal planning in the theory of catastrophes -- Pausological research at Saint Louis University -- Second section: Syntactic and structural aspects -- Pauses, prosody, and the demands of production in language -- Pause and syntactic structure -- Linguistic structures and performance structures: Studies in pause distribution -- Phonological status of the pause -- Pauses as indicators of cognitive functioning in aphasia -- Speech control and paraphasia in fluent and nonfluent aphasics -- Third section: Conversational aspects -- Encoding units in spontaneous speech: Some implications for the dynamics of conversation -- Hesitancy as a conversational resource: Some methodological implications -- The relationship between gaze and speech examined afresh with a Mackworth eye-mark camera -- Verbal planning in route directions -- Some reasons for hesitating -- Fourth section: Prosodic aspects -- Syllable omission errors and isochrony -- Suprasegmental structure and sentence perception -- Juncture pause and intonation fall and the perceptual segmentation of speech -- Some neglected aspects of intonation -- The role of pauses and suprasegmentals in a grammar -- A functional analysis of some pause and pitch step-up combinations -- Towards a subcategorization of speech pauses -- Perception of pauses and automatic speech recognition -- A digital method of pause extraction -- Fifth section: Crosslinguistic aspects.

The syntactical distribution of pauses in English spoken as a second language by French students -- Temporal variables in first and second language speech production -- Pauses and intonation as indicators of verbal planning in second-language speech productions: -- Two examples from a case study -- Results of a contrastive study of hesitation phenomena in French and German -- Towards a theory of speech processing: Some methodological considerations -- Probe latencies, foreign languages and foreign language learners -- Comparative studies of temporal variables in spoken and sign languages: A short review -- Verbal strategies: A neglected dimension in language acquisition studies -- Final discussion -- On the current understanding of temporal variables in speech -- References -- Index of names.