disfluency
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- IPA(key): /ˈdɪsflʊənsi/, /dɪsˈfluːənsi/
Noun
disfluency (countable and uncountable, plural disfluencies)
- Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.
- 2012, Donald K. Routh, Judy Lynne Perlman, “The Clinical Uses of Punishment: Bane or Boon?”, in Donald K. Routh, editor, Learning, Speech, and the Complex Effects of Punishment, →ISBN, page 198:
- Siegel considered at some length, without resolving it, the apparent paradox between traditional views of stuttering and modern demonstrations that punishment (i.e. contingent aversive stimulation) tends to decrease disfluency.
- 2022, Simon Williams, Disfluency and Proficiency in Second Language Speech Production, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1:
- Disfluency is a relatively recent construct. Not until the last century did fluency with the specific meaning of ease of speaking become a subject of widespread interest; and only in the mid-twentieth century did its corollary, the absence of such a facility, become the focus of systematic empirical study.
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