disfluency

As young children begin to speak, some disfluency is common.

These problems cause a break in the flow of speech (called disfluency).

Episodes of speech disfluency are common among adults and children, especially the very young.

But linguists have long debated the issue of what disfluency means.

Men say uh and um more than women, though their overall disfluency rate was the same.

At the other extreme of disfluency, a stammer can be debilitating.

Disfluency occurs when one of the stages in this complicated language process breaks down.

If you place excessive attention on the disfluency, a stuttering pattern may develop.

The best way to prevent stuttering, therefore, is to avoid paying too much attention to the disfluency.

It's called mild disfluency and most of us manage to communicate despite our often imperfect speech.

Stammering is the most extreme form of disfluency; often making life miserable for those affected.

Greece fears batter markets again" and whether disfluency is contagious.

These extracts, I hope, show just how common disfluency and unfinished sentences are in the speech of both sexes.

More disfluency is found in longer utterances and when the topic is unfamiliar.

Chapter 2 is an account of disfluency research from a wide variety of perspectives.

Speech disfluency and the structure of knowledge.

Stuttering may be the most serious disfluency.

In that book, he explored "disfluency" by creating a brilliant, articulate narrator who stutters.

He has speech disfluency problems.

Tasks that trigger disfluency usually require a controlled-language processing, which involves linguistic planning.

Stuttering that starts during a child's early language-learning years and goes away on its own sometime before puberty is called normal disfluency.

Linguistic tasks can invoke speech disfluency.

"I thought, here's something you hear in every single conversation during the day, some kind of disfluency, and yet people treat them as if they're garbage," she said.

Though researchers now have more success reducing disfluency in children, the discipline of speech therapy remains inexact and, for some stutterers, eternally ineffective.