A phonetic description of self-initiated self-repair sequences involving the repetition of words in German spontaneous speech is presented. Data are drawn from the Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech. The description is primarily impressionistic auditory, but it also employs acoustic records to verify and objectify the impressionistic findings. A number of different patterns around cut-off are id...

Ten fluent speakers and nine developmental stutterers read isolated nouns aloud in a delayed reading paradigm. Cortical activation sequences were mapped with a whole-head magnetoencephalography system. The stutterers were mostly fluent in this task. Although the overt performance was essentially identical in the two groups, the cortical activation patterns showed clear differences, both in the ...

UNLABELLED The present study investigated the immediate effects of eight altered auditory feedback (AAF) parameters on stuttering frequency during monologue speech production on two occasions. One of the modern commercially available portable anti-stuttering devices, "The Pocket Speech Lab" (Casa Futura Technologies) was used in the study to produce the auditory feedback alterations. Six types ...

In a delayed naming task the effect of syllable frequency on the production time of syllables was investigated. Participants first heard either a lowor a high-frequency syllable and were then asked to repeat this syllable as often as they could for a time span of eight seconds. Mean production times per syllable were determined. When the segmental make-up of highand lowfrequency syllables was c...

introduction: hearing loss from birth up to the age of 3 years has a negative effect on speech/language development and results in sensory, cognitive, emotional, and academic defects in adulthood by causing delayed development of communicative-linguistic abilities. the present study was performed in order to assess the effect of early intervention on language development in persian children age...

Usually normal variation but may be a "specific speech and language disorder" There is immense variation among normal children in the rate they acquire language. Some 3 year olds can hold a sophisticated conversation, whereas others may produce sentences of only two or three unclear words.' Delay in learning to speak is usually a reflection of this normal variation, but it may be a sign of seve...

Competition between phonologically similar sequences in an utterance is one of the major causes for speech production errors. Additionally, phonological competition has been found to increase planning time and slow down speech rate in CVC word pairs. The aims of this study are to investigate the timecourse of phonological competition by employing different tasks and by a detailed gestural analy...