CSD 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speech Disfluency, Etiology, Peter Van Riper
21 Feb 2018
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Fluent speech: fluency, disfluency, everyone is disfluent at times, between-word disfluencies (bwds, within-word disfluencies (wwds, stuttering / fluency disorder, unusual # of disfluencies indicate stuttering, large proportion of within-word disfluencies. Stuttering: definition (guitar, 1998, unusual # of repetitions, prolongations, blocks, disfluency is combined with excessive effort to resume talking, stutterers have negative perceptions of speaking. Primary stuttering behaviors: aka core behaviors, repetitions, prolongations, blocks. Secondary behaviors: counterproductive adaptations, circumlocutions, stutterers use some sort of movement to get through the stutter, face, body, effectiveness fades. Incidence/ prevalence: prevalence (1%, percentage of people who stutter in a given population at a certain time. Incidence (5%: percentage of people who stutter in a given population at any time in their lives, 3:1 ratio of male to female. Etiology of stuttering: dispelling the myths, it is not a nervous reaction, it is not the result of overly sensitive parents, relationship between internal and external factors, internal, external.
