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The Effects of Stress Versus Punishment on Disfluency
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RETHINKING RARITY: ASSESSING CLINICAL REPORTS OF WORD FINAL DISFLUENCY (WFD)
Existing literature highlights that word-final disfluency (WFD), a type of atypical dysfluencyinvolving final sound/syllable repetition, is distinct from developmental stuttering. However, current research is limited primarily to case studies, restricting the generalizability of those findings. The …
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The Effect of Temporal Manipulation of Disfluency on the Perception of Stuttering
Results indicated that both factors (pause duration and vowel duration) affected listeners' perception. In general, repetitions with short vowel and pause durations were judged as more representative of stuttering, whereas repetitions with longer vowel and pause duration were judged as more …
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Disfluency disrupts the confirmation bias: when changing the font changes your mind
… how experienced difficultly in processing (disfluency) can reduce the confirmation bias by promoting careful, analytic processing. In two studies, I found that participants with prior beliefs about an issue supported their own side less when given counter-arguments presented disfluently. The …
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The Disfluency Loci of Stuttering and Nonstuttering Mandarin -Speaking Preschool Children and Adults
This study was partly 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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Characteristics of Disfluency Clusters in Stuttering and Normally Fluent Preschool Children: A Longitudinal Study
This research was supported by grant number R01-DC05210 from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
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The Use of Speech Disfluency as an Indicant of Paradigm Development in Pharmacy's Academic Subdisciplines
This study compared speech disfluency rates within five subdisciplines of pharmacy to estimate their paradigm development, and identified alternative factors associated with differing rates. Rates were observed in randomly selected courses. Lecturers completed a modified version of the Brief Fear …
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The relationship between representational, beat, and cohesive gestures and speech disfluency in the 2012 presidential debate
… referred to as co-speech (Hostetter, 2011). Both disfluency and gesture have been show to influence audience reaction during political debates (e.g., Pennebaker, Mehl, & Niederhoffer, 2003). This study examined the relation between speech disfluency and hand gesture in the First 2012 Presidential …
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Disentangling fluency, comprehensibility and coherence: Toward a better understanding of oral proficiency profiles
… attempt to examine how removal of all possible disfluency markers can help disentangle proficiency components assessed by the Oral English Proficiency Test (OEPT) in order to help build empirical foundations for establishing OEPT profiles. Silent and filled pauses, false starts and repetitions …
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Disfluencies and Rate of Speech of Young Adult Normal Talkers in an Interview Situation
… research has been conducted concerning speech disfluency in normal talkers. Virtually no data are available to document percentage of disfluency and rate of speech of nonstutterers in a speech pathology clinical interview situation. Consequently, it is difficult to compare progress made by …
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The metacognitive cue of fluency on taste perception
… where the fluency created an advantage or disfluency created a disadvantage for taste evaluations. Experiment 1 examined the effect of perceptual fluency on taste perception. It was found that perceptual disfluency derived from r eading the labels (i.e., font) lowered taste evaluations only …
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Three Essays of Consumer Inference Making and Metacognitive Experience in Perceived Information Security
… in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 suggested that disfluency and difficulty of retrieval could increase perceived security because metacognitive experience makes consumers misattribute their feeling of difficulty to technical difficulty. We found that the positive effect of disfluency was held when …
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Lexical and Sublexical Characteristics of Words Produced Disfluently by Adults Who Stutter
… name.). Observations were also made regarding disfluency type (block, prolongation, part-word repetition, whole-word repetition and starter).</p><p>The results indicated that the word's neighborhood density for stuttered words was significantly greater than that of the general population of …
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An investigation into stuttering development: a longitudinal approach
… and associated emotional arousal and speech disfluency. Conversational samples of speech were collected on weekly visits to the clinic, 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 …
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The evaluation of second language fluency and foreign accent
… findings of perceptual ratings showed that the disfluency rating highly correlated with the vocabulary score and vocabulary size in L2 production. This suggests that L2 fluency relates to the lack of vocabulary. The perception of accent correlated well with the pronunciation rating. Due to the …
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The Relationship Between Linguistic Mazes and Executive Function in African American Adults
… become more disfluent or show a change in their disfluency patterns with age, producing less informative utterances across contexts (e.g., Samani et al., 2017; Andrade & Martins-Reis, 2010). The specific pattern and mechanism behind this phenomenon are still unsettled (for a review, see Mortensen …
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The Effect of Sequent Input on Speech Accuracy and Fluency in Adults at the Intermediate Level
… no significant difference in the intensity of disfluency (total pausing time, length of run, and speech rates) before and after the intervention between the experimental and control groups. These results suggest SI could be used as one instructional methodology to develop communicative …
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Automatic Assessment of L2 Spoken English
… second illustrates a pipeline which starts from disfluency detection and removal, passes through grammatical error correction, and ends with proficiency assessment. Grammar, as well as rhythm, pronunciation, and lexical and semantic aspects, is also considered in the third study, which …
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Interventions That Move: Characterizing the Language of Therapist Responses to High Patient Arousal
… of the RP, as well as additional measures of Disfluency, pronoun use, a supportive-exploratory intervention distinction, use of direct questions, number of words, and turn number (i.e., when the intervention takes place in the session). Results indicate that the interventions most immediately …
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Language Expertise as a Source of Dispute in Bilingual Couple Talk
… based on the second language speaker's disfluency or differences between the speakers' cultural backgrounds, a claim that is frequently made in other fields such as intercultural communication, second language studies, and sociolinguistics. This newly identified phenomena based on …
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