[1] She is known for her research on speech disfluencies;[2][3] a volume dedicated in her honor calls her "the modern pioneer of the science of pausology".
[6][7] After her marriage to the writer Willy Goldman in 1934, due to the growing threat of Nazi Germany, she moved from Austria to London, where she lived the rest of her life.
[5][8] In the early 1950s, she began pausological experiments,[9] and continued doing research in this area for the rest of her career.
[10][5] Goldman-Eisler refers to being offered and accepting a "home" in the Department of Phonetics at University College London in 1955, though it is not clear what her position was at that time.
She was eventually given the titles Emeritus Professor of Psycholinguistics and honorary Research Fellow at University College London.