Judit Bóna (ed.)

(Dis)fluencies in children’s speech

Discussion and conclusion

Findings of this study shed light on similar and different patterns of use of filled pauses and fillers in 7-, 10-year-olds’ and in young adults’ spontaneous speech. Data confirmed an increase of fillers and a decrease of filled pauses in speech production from 7-year-olds through 10-year-olds up to young adults with different patterns depending on phrasal position. There are five questions raised by the data that need explanations: (i) Why did 7-year-olds prefer using filled pauses against fillers? (ii) Why did 10-year-olds use more filled pauses and fillers in their spontaneous speech than adults? (iii) Why did young adults prefer using fillers instead of filled pauses? (iv) Why did filled pauses and fillers show different patterns depending on phrasal positions? (v) Is there any explanation for the different occurrences of filler instances depending on phrasal position?

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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