CMD 460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Speech Disfluency, Cluttering, Child Development
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Fluency: the term describes speech that is easy, rapid, rhythmical, and evenly flowing. Disfluency: describes speech that is marked by repetitions, interjections, pauses, and revisions, disrupting the smooth flow. Two major fluency types: stuttering, cluttering. What is stuttering: guitar (1998) three-part definition: Characterized by an unusually high frequency or duration of repetitions, prolongations, and/or blockages that interrupt the flow of speech. Interruptions are often combined with excessive mental and physical effort to resume talking. Most stutterers have negative perceptions of their communication. Normal vs. stuttered disfluencies abilities: typical fluencies at age 2&3. Revisions (he cant he wont play baseball) flow of speech: normal disfluencies do not tend to adversely affec the continuous forward, disfluencies that involve within-word disrutpios tend to be judged as stuttering by listeners. Primary stuttering behaviors: the primary stuttering behaviors (core behaviors) - disfluencies which are not typical. Audible prolongations: cluttered disfluences when the instance contain more than one type of within-word disfluencies.
