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One type of spontaneous speech disfluency is the filled pause, in which a filler (e.g. uh) interrupts production of an utterance. We report a visual world experiment in which par-ticipants ’ eye movements were monitored while they responded to ambiguous utterances containing filled pauses by manipulating objects placed in front of them. Participants ’ eye movements and actions suggested that filled pauses informed resolution of the current referential ambiguity, but did not affect the final parse. We suggest that filled pauses may inform the resolution of whatever ambiguity is most salient in a given situation