This paper discusses the speech monitoring process that underlies overt self-repairing of speech errors; the covert repair hypothesis, dealing particularly with explaining the variety of disfluency types from a restricted set of repair principles; quantitative and qualitative characteristics of disfluency in people who stutter; and the covert…

Definitions are provided for the overall category of "communicative disorder," and "hearing disorder." In addition, definitions are provided for the following narrower categories: "voice disorder,""articulation disorder,""fluency disorder,""deaf," and "hard of hearing." Journal…

A study of overt audible speech behavior in eight male and one female Swedish adults examined the relationship between disfluency and speaking modality, disfluency type in mild versus severe stutterers, and disfluency and psycholinguistic variables. Three conditions of experimental manipulation were used: reading aloud, reading the longer lines of…