Title

Timing and intensity variability in the metronomic speech of stuttering and nonstuttering speakers

Authors

Authors

F. R. Boutsen; G. J. Brutten;C. R. Watts

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res.

Keywords

stuttering; speech timing; variability; metronome; FLUENCY-EVOKING CONDITIONS; RHYTHMIC STRESS BEATS; VOICE ONSET TIMES; SPATIOTEMPORAL STABILITY; PERCEPTUAL CENTERS; MOVEMENTS; LOCATION; ENGLISH; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Linguistics; Rehabilitation

Abstract

The timing and intensity variability of 8 adults who stutter and 8 age-matched Fluent speakers was investigated under metronomic conditions. Participants were required to produce double or triple-stress patterns at a slow speech rate (1 syllable/870 ms) when repeating the syllable /staet/ or /straet/ nine times. Measures that are sensitive to cyclic rather than overall variation in syllable timing and intensity were employed. Specifically, durational variation between successive syllable onsets as well as intensity variation of the beginning consonant and vowel in successive syllables were computed. Results revealed that, although intensity variation was similar, the timing of successive syllables of persons who stutter was significantly more variable than that of persons who do not stutter These outcomes are discussed in relation to previous experiments of timing control of persons who stutter and normally fluent persons during metronomic stimulation.

Journal Title

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Volume

43

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

513

Last Page

520

WOS Identifier

WOS:000086069300016

ISSN

1092-4388

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