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Merlo, Sandra; Mansur, Leticia Lessa – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2004
This investigation was undertaken to address questions about topic familiarity and disfluencies during oral descriptive discourse of adult speakers. Participants expressed more attributes when the topic was familiar than when it was unfamiliar. Fillers and lexical pauses were the most frequent disfluencies. The mean duration of each hesitation…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Familiarity, Speech Skills, Speech Evaluation