Shaina gets caught in a lie and doesn't know what to say next. She pauses due to her anxiety and her uncertainty about what to say next. Shaina is demonstrating a(n)

a. hesitation silence
b. psycholinguistic silence
c. interactive silence
d. vocal qualifier
e. verbal surrogate


a

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