CSD 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Speech Disfluency, Prolongation, Peter Van Riper
10 Oct 2016
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Speech that is easy, rhythmical, and evenly flowing. Disfluency is combined with excessive physical and mental effort to resume talking. Stutterers have negative perceptions of their communication abilities- may develop low. Unusual # of, or physically tense disfluencies indicate stuttering. Large proportion of within-word disfluencies are characteristic of stuttering. Stutterers use some sort of movement to get through the stutter. Repeating sounds at the beginning or in the middle of words. Holding a sound for a long period of time. Secondary behaviors become less successful and more intrusive with time. Percentage of people who stutter in a given population at a certain time. Percentage of people who stutter in a given population at any time in their lives. Stuttering can lead to increased anxiety which may worsen disfluency but nervousness is not the initial cause. It is not the result of overly sensitive parents. Children do not stutter because their parents made them aware of their disfluency.
