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/ˈdɪsflʊənsi/ · noun
Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech..
To the long list of everyday afflictions that includes dry, itchy skin and restless leg syndrome, add another: speech disfluency.
Siegel considered at some length, without resolving it, the apparent paradox between traditional views of stuttering and modern demonstrations that punishment (i.e. contingent aversive stimulation) tends to decrease disfluency.
Disfluency is a relatively recent construct. Not until the last century did fluency with the specific meaning of ease of speaking become a subject of widespread interest; and only in the mid-twentieth century did its corollary, the absence of such a facility, become the focus of systematic empirical study.
Use disfluency when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Disfluency means Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech..
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To the long list of everyday afflictions that includes dry, itchy skin and restless leg syndrome, add another: speech disfluency.
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