| Abstract |
| The mainstream of research comparing
types of disfluency in stuttered and normal speech has typically omitted consideration of
pause. In contrast, psycholinguistic research addressed to disfluency in normal
speech alone has revealed the salience of pause in the study of fluency/disfluency.
The research reported here, which focused on the antecedents and sequelae of filled
pauses, revealed substantial differences in pattern of pause occurrence between stuttered
and normal speech samples obtained from 20 matched subjects. The results are
discussed in reference to relevant findings from the research on pause in normal speech. |
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