Judit Bóna (ed.)

(Dis)fluencies in children’s speech

Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)

In both girls (A and M), the MLU develops similarly between ages 1;5 (one year and five months) and 2;2, and then regularly increases for M until reaching a value of 5 morphemes/utterance at 2;7. For A, it is lower at the same age (3.6). This discrepancy is reduced at the age of 4;11, but the MLU remains lower in A (4.3 compared to M’s 5.7). In boys (T and AT), the MLU values are lower compared to the girls until 2;2. At this age, AT starts a regular progression before he attains an MLU of 4.1 points (similar to A). For T, the MLU is increasing as well, being more rapid compared to AT, since T attains a value of 5.5 in the end (similar to M). Those results are quite interesting since both girls evolve more rapidly than the boys at the beginning of the recordings. In the end, however, T attains M’s MLU value, which indicates that his grammatical development is much more aggregated over time. Thus, acquisition profiles are very different among children (Figure 1).

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2021

ISBN: 978 963 454 709 9

Nyelvészet

Disfluencies (filled pauses, filler words, repetitions, part-word repetitions, prolongations, broken words, and revisions) are natural phenomena of everyday speech. They are insights on the speech planning processes indicating speech planning difficulties or self-monitoring, and play an important role in turn-taking during conversations. The occurrences of disfluencies in speech are affected by several factors. One of these is the speaker’s age. This volume is a collection of nine articles on the topic of speech planning and speech production of children from the aspects of fluency, disfluency, speech tempo, and pausing. The volume is recommended to linguists, experts of phonetics and psycholinguistics, speech and language therapists, university students, child language specialists, and everybody who is interested in child language

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