disfluent

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dis·flu·ent

(dis-flū'ent),

Relating to disfluency.

dis·flu·ent

(dis-flū'ĕnt)

Relating to dysfluency.

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When information is presented in a disfluent format, people tend to modify, and rely less on, their existing beliefs.

How the perceptual fluency of price discounts and promotional cues affect consumer responses

Twenty-two-month-olds discriminate fluent from disfluent adult-directed speech.

Claves para la categorizacion fonetica en el habla dirigida a adultos: evidencia de tres lenguas con caracteristicas vocalicas distintas

Each root node is viewed as a separate phrase; attaching disfluent words to the root creates semantically incomplete phrases that are subsequently discarded.

Toward humanlike task-based dialogue processing for human robot interaction

In this paper we have argued that the problem of stuttering can usefully be viewed in these terms, as involving not merely the behavioral production of disfluent speech, but also the construction, across time, of a sense of self that is problem-saturated and resistant to change.

8 Talking back to stuttering: constructivist contributions to stuttering treatment

Even if Jack works hard practicing appropriate behavior, his new behavior may be disfluent and he may feel that he is not true to his "real self": his characteristic, rapid, automatic, effortless, context and stimulus-appropriate behavior (Fraley, 1998; Johnson & Layng, 1996).

Towards understanding the meaning of affectionate verbal behavior; towards creating romantic loving

A disfluent student reads slowly and laboriously, stopping often to sound out words and rereading sections to regain comprehension.

Decoding and fluency: foundation skills for struggling older readers

In another California district the label is "clinically disfluent.

Toward a new view of low-achieving bilinguals: A study of linguistic competence in designated "semilinguals"

Exploring the physical behaviors that accompany a client's disfluent speech may also be valuable, as the client's self-awareness of concrete behaviors will be increased.

Understanding Stuttering and Counseling Clients Who Stutter

In contrast, the same person composed the following lengthier and more disfluent utterance when only permitted to speak:

MULTIMODAL INTERFACES THAT PROCESS WHAT COMES NATURALLY

The data below show examples of this seemingly disfluent production of polymorphemic words where there is a pause between the prefix and root.

The morphological realization and production of a nonprototypical morpheme: the Tagalog derivational clitic *

We do know that almost everyone is disfluent on occasion and disfluency is frequently seen in preschool age children.

Stuttering

Comparing the disfluent speech of people who stutter to the fluent speech of nonstuttering2 individuals fosters an environment in which people who stutter are devalued.

Perspectives on the effects of stuttering on the formation and maintenance of intimate relationships