AUSTIN, Texas, June 10 (UPI) --A new study published by the Journal of Language and Social Psychology says that individuals who use filler words such as "you know," "um" and "like" are more likely to ...

Um, don’t you get, you know, annoyed by verbal clutter? Nothing sinks a public speaker quicker than an overdose of ums and uhs. Professional yakkers are expected to purge their speech of such lexical ...

So, like, does it bother you the way some people speak? Some of us use what are called "discourse markers" in conversation. A linguistics professor at Seattle Pacific University says discourse markers ...

So, like, it turns out that the way you, like, use certain words can, you know, say things about your, um, personality. Which, you know, makes sense, because, like, people who think about what they ...

New research shows that Valley Girls are just, like, really really thoughtful. A new study published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology shows that those who used "filler speech" ("like," ...