Judit Bóna (ed.)

(Dis)fluencies in children’s speech

Discussion

We summarized our findings on the temporal characteristics of children’s speech according to age in the following table (Table 1). 4-year-olds produced slower and relatively shorter utterances than the 6- and 8-year-olds. Their utterances were less fluent than the older children’s due to the fact that their speech production was interrupted with many long filled pauses. 4-year-olds’ statements were grammatically less complex than the other children’s. 6-year-old children’s speech units were faster and longer, and they only took a few short filled pauses. They made grammatically more complex utterances than 4-year-olds; however, the average DSS score was lower than in the case of 8-year-olds. The 8-year-old children produced long, fast and grammatically complex utterances compared to the two younger groups. In addition, the individual differences were the greatest in the examined aspects in the oldest age group.

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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