Disfluencies In Normal Hindi Speaking Children - 5-7 years

Abstract

The speech features involved in an assessment of fluency have been subsumed under a general concept of 'transition smoothness' (Dalton and Hardcastle, 1977). These features include: "Pausing (that is discontinuities of gaps in the speech audio signal due for example, to articulatory closures" hesitations and juncture pauses), rhythmical patterning (the regular succession of stressed beats in a speech utterance), regulation of tempo, intonation and stress patterns, and other features including interjections, interruptions etc., which cannot be easily included under the other categories (Dalton and Hardcastle, 1977). They add that these features could effect normal speech in various ways.