Stutterers were found to have a significantly greater number of pauses 150 to 250 msec long than nonstutterers, indicating that even the fluent speech of stutterers differs from normal speech. (Author/KW)

Defines "Slurish" as the dialect which results from North American English-speakers'"tendency to eliminate less emphatic syllables and run together the sounds which are left, frequently omitting consonants"; includes a brief glossary of such terms. (Author/SW)

Results of the study suggested that the four measurement instruments of communication problems are not capable of discriminating students with communication problems from students without. Concluded that what may be most important in distinguishing the two groups is whether or not persons perceive their uncomfortable feelings about communication…

Paralinguistic behaviors, including speech rates and turn-taking behaviors, of five-year-old boys who stutter (n=11) and boys who do not stutter (n=11) and their fathers were investigated. No significant differences were found in comparisons of the two groups of fathers or of the two groups of children for any of the paralinguistic behaviors.…

A case is made for the increased study of paralinguistic voice qualifiers, which include variations in breathing, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, velopharyngeal, lingual, labial, mandibular, articulatory, articulatory tension, and objectual control. It is proposed that attention to these voice qualities has a variety of practical, literary,…

A study investigated the intonational patterns used by women and men at the ends of utterances for the purpose of managing discourse. The research sought to describe how intonation helps to signal that a speaker is through speaking and desires a response or reaction from the listener, or that the speaker is not through with a turn and wishes to…

The study sought to isolate and identify patterns occurring in language interactions between mothers and their nonhandicapped and Down Syndrome children. Data were collected as part of a 3-year study of language interaction. Twenty nonhandicapped (NH) and 20 Down Syndrome (DS) children and their mothers were evaluated via a demographic inventory,…

The present study examines some properties of the syntagmatic rules underlying syllable production. (Author)

THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH IN ATTEMPTING TO MASTER THE PRONUNCIATION OF EGYPTIAN ARABIC WERE ANALYZED DURING THE REPORTED RESEARCH. THE LANGUAGE UNDER CONSIDERATION WAS THE URBAN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC OF THE EGYPTIAN DELTA. THIS STUDY DEALT WITH THE SEGMENTAL PHONEMES ONLY, WITH SOME REFERENCE TO STRESS AND…

Spectrographic analyses were performed of utterances of three groups of children: four producing correct /w,r,l,j/ (ages three-five), four with developmental w/r and w/l substitutions (age four), and four with articulation impairments (ages six-seven). Findings supported the hypothesis that children's underlying forms are unique and represent…

The "fluency rules" therapy program for young children who stutter consists of seven rules designed to teach children about the physiologic concepts associated with fluent speech production. Pilot testing with nine children (three- to seven-years-old) demonstrated its effectiveness in producing fluent speech and maintaining fluency for a…

Examines the various aspects of natural conversation in order to provide a theoretically comprehensive schema that accounts for a conversation's structure. Aspects considered are: (1) speaker-listener initial and turn-change behavior; (2) the listener's speaker-directed behavior; (3) interlistener and simultaneous behaviors; and (4) the function…

Experiments were conducted to examine the influence of syntactic boundaries on the operation of a phonological rule in speech production. Results indicate that traditional metrics of boundary strength, as well as linguistic formulations of phonological rules, must be elaborated to recognize the special status of clause boundaries and deletion…