Title

Timing And Intensity Variability In The Metronomic Speech Of Stuttering And Nonstuttering Speakers

Keywords

Metronome; Speech timing; Stuttering; Variability

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 /stæt/ or /stræt/ 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.

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Publication Title

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volume

43

Issue

2

Number of Pages

513-520

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1044/jslhr.4302.513

Socpus ID

0034168098 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0034168098

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