Judit Bóna (ed.)

(Dis)fluencies in children’s speech

Introduction: disfluencies in language acquisition

The language acquisition process is, among others, characterized by a period during which children produce a critical number of disfluencies such as repetitions, hesitations, broken words, or false starts. This period roughly corresponds to ages 2 to 4, and it coincides with the beginning of the production of longer utterances with higher syntactic complexity, requiring more complex motor planning (Peters et al., 1989). These increased demands may be too heavy for the child to process, leading to an increased amount of speech disruptions (Smith & Weber, 2017; Guitar, 2019), and in some cases, disfluencies take on a pathological form, making the child stutter (Guitar, 2019). By the age of 5, the number of disfluencies starts to decrease spontaneously, even though the reasons for this decrease remain unclear (Scarpa, 2015). Thus, it is considered that studying disfluencies would reveal a lot about difficulties encountered by children when constructing their utterances (Yaruss et al., 1999). We can presume that disfluencies will be more frequent with increasing syntactic complexity, at least until a certain age.

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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