237 - Um... huh? Are Interjections Useful in Speech?

On today’s episode: Whale poop and pee is more important than you might think! Um… What? Huh? And lots of other examples of why my public speaking teacher was wrong. All that and more today on All Around Science...

RESOURCES

• Discovery: The Great Whale Pee Funnel
• Huh? The valuable role of interjections
• Speech interjections aren’t throwaway lines
• Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items
• Listeners as co-narrators | APA PsycNet

CREDITS:

Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong

Booking - September McCrady 

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

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