Judit Bóna (ed.)

(Dis)fluencies in children’s speech


Length of Chunks and IPUs in words

The Chunk length in words is the number of lexical words used for delivering information. Theoretically speaking, the more words used in one Chunk, the more informative the Chunk should be. Based on this assumption, we explored lexical complexity of the speech content by Chunk length. In contrast to Chunk length, IPU length is the result of prosodic arrangement organized by the speakers themselves. If a speaker produces only short IPUs, the speech content is chopped into fragmentary pieces. Consequently, in addition to the fluency being affected, the content contained in each IPU accordingly becomes less informative. Our results show that the mean lengths of Chunks are 1.95, 1.82, and 2.02 for HA, CI, and NH, while for IPUs, they are 2.40, 2.36, and 2.59, respectively. Hearing children produced longer Chunks and longer IPUs than did HA and CI children. That is, regardless of whether we calculated the measure based on the text or the prosodic organization, the NH children were able to produce lexically more complex contents than were the HA and CI children, as shown in Figure 2. The NH children also tended to produce very long Chunks and IPUs, while the HA and CI children did not. In contrast, the NH children produced fewer short Chunks and IPUs than did the HA and CI children.

(Dis)fluencies in children’s speech

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2021

ISBN: 978 963 454 709 9

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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