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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"speech disfluency"”.
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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
Hand gestures are yoked to speech in a highly-correlated system, often 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 …
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An investigation into stuttering development: a longitudinal approach
… events 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 …
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Disfluencies and Rate of Speech of Young Adult Normal Talkers in an Interview Situation
… little 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 …