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hesitation-form
b. hesitation-form, a sound or form, e.g. 
/ɜː/, used deliberately or accidentally when faltering or stammering in speech. So hesitation-vowel, etc. Cf. er int.
/ɜː/, used deliberately or accidentally when faltering or stammering in speech. So hesitation-vowel, etc. Cf. er int.ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > stammer or stammering > sound or form used in
hum1469
hick1607
ha1612
hack1660
haw-haw1838
hesitation-form1933
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xii. 186 When a speaker hesitates, English and some other languages offer special parenthetic hesitation-forms, as [ə:] or [ε] in Mr. —ah—Sniffen.
1957 S. Potter Mod. Ling. v. 122 He may even inflict indeterminate hesitation-forms[ə:] or [ɑ:] upon his suffering hearers.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 11 i. 36 This is often called the ‘hesitation vowel’ although it is not a vowel qua vowel at all.
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