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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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.