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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Disfluencies"”.
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Gesture Production, Motor Skills, and Disfluencies Observed in Typically Developing Preschoolers
… to 6:6 years. Data are presented on gestures and disfluencies during spontaneous speech, a cartoon narration, and a video narration. Additionally, disfluencies were observed during a procedural description task with restricted hand use and hand tapping. Data indicated that higher frequencies of …
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Examination Of Speech Disfluencies In The Story Generation Narratives Of Bidialectal Children
… with a greater frequency and variety of speech disfluencies in their story generation narratives. The story generation narratives of children who speak with no variation (monodialectal), some variation (bidialectal), and strong variation (monodialectal) from MAE were coded for speech …
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Disfluencies and Rate of Speech of Young Adult Normal Talkers in an Interview Situation
… and 1% of words in reading. The majority of disfluencies were interjections and revisions. They spoke and read at approximately 159 and 198 words per minute, respectively. Data from this study can be used to compare the post therapy results of stutterers who participate in Precision Fluency …
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Characteristics of Disfluencies of Preschool Children Who Stutter: A Longitudinal Study Regarding Persistence and Recovery
This study was supported by grant #R01-DC00459 from the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Principal Investigator: Ehud Yairi.
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The Relationship between Speech Disfluencies Produced under Delayed Auditory Feedback and Auditory Processing Skills in Fluent Speakers.
… produced significantly more Stuttering-Like Disfluencies (SLDs) under DAF than females. Significantly more SLDs were observed during conversation compared to reading. Overall, there was significant correlation between the frequency of SLDs and auditory performance on SSW test. Females scored …
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AN ANALYSIS OF CODE SWITCHING EVENTS IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… code-switched events, vocabulary measures, and disfluencies to better understand if children utilize code-switching to fill in lexical gaps in Spanish, as measured by disfluencies surrounding the code-switch. Results indicate that children’s spoken vocabulary diversity is not related to …
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Examining fluency practices: an interactional study of stuttering
… to highlight patterns of collaboration and disfluencies. Data analysis was designed to assess group- and (participant pair) activity- based performance. Group based analysis consisted of collaborative effort (consisting of accuracy of card placements, time needed to complete trials, number …
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The Use of Speech Disfluency as an Indicant of Paradigm Development in Pharmacy's Academic Subdisciplines
… ANCOVA was conducted on the frequency of lecture disfluencies, with the frequency of interview disfluencies serving as the covariate. The overall mean disfluency rate in lectures was 2.11 disfluencies/minute. Average dislfuency rates among the five subdisciplines ranged from 1.28 to 2.74. It does …
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Communicative context, expectations, and adaptation in prosodic production and comprehension
… are instructed to report where they heard disfluencies, even though there were no disfluencies present in the recordings. Listeners report hearing disfluencies at the locations that had intonational boundaries, and they are equally likely to report them in licensed and unlicensed locations …
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The relationship between representational, beat, and cohesive gestures and speech disfluency in the 2012 presidential debate
… Specifically, the frequency and type of speech disfluencies and gesticulations generated by candidates were identified, annotated, and compared. Speech and gesture variables were examined across multiple speech domains, including utterance and speaking turn. Results showed a correlation between …
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Factors influencing the efficacy of delayed auditory feedback in treating dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease
… speech rate, reduced intelligibility, and disfluencies. The present study examined the effects of delayed auditory feedback (DAF) as a rate control intervention for dysarthric speakers with Parkinson's disease. Adverse reactions to relatively long delay intervals are commonly observed …
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The Effects of Human-Computer Communication Mode, Task Complexity, and Desire for Control on Performance and Discourse Organization in an Adaptive Task
… utterances were assessed for verbosity, disfluencies, and indices of common ground.</p>
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Automating Accountability Mechanisms in the Judiciary System using Large Language Models
… transcripts present a unique challenge due to disfluencies in transcribed speech.
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The Representation of Speech Disorders in Film
… example, an individual with a stutter may have disfluencies in speech flow or disordered speech patterns. The representation of marganizied groups within the film industry has come a long way, but we are far from where we need to be. In the spring of 2022, I watched the top 50 movies of 2021 …
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An investigation into stuttering development: a longitudinal approach
… which were transcribed and coded for speech disfluencies. It was hypothesized that emotional arousal would be related to the child’s stuttering. It was also hypothesized that routine would impact longitudinal change in emotional arousal and associated stuttering. Results showed that intensity …
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Auditory-motor integration influences on speech motor control and fluency: a comparison of normally fluent speakers and people who stutter
… fluent adults who showed high stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) under DAF (High-SLD group), 15 normally fluent adults who showed low SLD under DAF (Low-SLD group), and 15 adults who stutter, and (III) compare the specific effects of DAF on speech motor stability and movement patterns …
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Lexical and Sublexical Characteristics of Words Produced Disfluently by Adults Who Stutter
… and prolongations were the most common types of disfluencies. However, the most common type of disfluency for proper names was blocks. It was concluded that the speech of AWS differs from the speech of CWS when compared by neighborhood density, frequency, phonotactic probability, and word type …
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Improving Cascaded Systems in Spoken Language Processing
… (SGEC). Spontaneous speech often comes with disfluencies, such as filled pauses, repetitions and false starts. As an important pre-processing step for many spoken language systems, SDD removes speech disfluencies and recovers a fluent transcription flow for downstream text processing tasks. …
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Word searches in L1 and L2 Italian conversation: re-establishing intersubjectivity
… initiate repairs with hesitation markers and disfluencies. The students’ use of resources to initiate repairs deals not only with production problems in the talk, but also display and construct their identities as non-native speakers in the interaction. They assume a thinking face and make eye …
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