Question

Which of the following refers to pauses and stops made between thoughts or utterance?

Answer 1

The answer is fillers.

Fillers or filler words refer to pauses and stops made between thoughts or utterance. These words or phrases are usually meaningless and do not have any purposeful or formal meaning. Some of the common fillers that are in use are er, um, uh, mm, okay, actually, and basically.

Answer 2

Filler words are used to refer to the pauses and stops made between thoughts or utterance.

While speaking people tend to join two thoughts to give a speech.

Thus, in the process or while thinking how to connect the two different things, they use the filler words in between such as uumm, aahhan, etc.