Lung volumes and ventilatory patterns used by 10 healthy and 14 asthmatic subjects during conversation, monologue, and counting at two loudness levels were studied. Asthmatics were found to favor respiratory over communications needs. They used a greater percentage of their reduced vital capacity, with slower inspiratory and faster expiratory flow…

Stuttering frequency in 10 adult stutterers (ages 22-48 years) was measured when speaking spontaneously alone, then with an adult male conversationalist, and finally speaking alone again. Percent stuttering increased in the conversational situation compared with the first alone situation and decreased again during the second alone situation.…

Syllabic structures produced by 11 severely to profoundly hearing-impaired adolescents were analyzed in terms of three models of syllabic complexity. A positive correlation was found between complexity according to the three models and error rate. Errors showed a substantial tendency to reduce complexity in each of the models at a highly…

In a research study of speech behavior, it was found that subjects talked the most when the subject matter was related to their immediate concerns. (CK)

Analysis of phonological patterns of 14 children (3 to 5 years old) with severe articulation disorders revealed that eight Ss demonstrated a sound preference process. Similarities in sound preferences included occurrence in the word-initial position. (CL)

The study examined the possibility that children who omit word-final stops as a clinical entity may preserve the voicing contrast of those omitted stops by differential durations of the preceding vowel. (Author)

A literature review of conditions that might be expected to increase stuttering reveals that most investigators have not been able to raise stuttering frequency above control or base levels. Although some variables may increase stuttering, the research is too meager to speculate about underlying factors. (Author/CL)

Examination of stereotypes about polite speech found that women are expected to speak more politely than men regardless of sex of addressee topic. Men are expected to use different forms for requests for masculine, feminine, and neutral actions and different forms of requests for male and female addressees. (CMG)

Approximately 47,200 spontaneous utterances of four nonstuttering children were analyzed for the occurrence of developmental disfluency from the time of one word utterances through the emergence of beginning syntax. Variations were found among the children's profiles with systematic changes in disfluency at each succeeding mean length of utterance…

Proposes, as a follow-up to a previous article about applying a phonological reading model to technical communication, that educators and practitioners of technical communication would benefit from a thorough understanding of the speech instinct. Explores the speech instinct, how humans developed it, and how it has been and still is fostered by…

This study analyzed a conversational speech sample from 10 preschool children stuttering for a year or less and age- and sex-matched nonstuttering children. Analysis indicated no significant between-group differences for either the duration of acoustically measured sound/syllable repetitions and sound prolongations or the number of repeated units…

Cluster formation in speech disfluencies of 15 preschool stuttering children and 15 nonstuttering controls was studied and compared. Clustering was found to be a significant factor in disfluent speech for both normal and stuttering children, but proportions of clustered disfluencies and size of clusters were significantly greater in the…

A summary on the state of the art of communication apprehension and reticence by two great adversaries. Concludes that empirical research has now matured to a point where it can spawn a practical technology. (PD)