LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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Clustering of Disfluencies in 2.1 to 3 Year Old
Kannada Speaking Children

Anjana B. Ram, M.Sc. (Speech and Hearing), Ph.D. Candidate
Savithri. S.R., Ph.D. (Speech and Hearing)

Disfluency –
Definition and a Brief Review

Interruptions or breaks in the normal flow of speech are termed as disfluencies, i.e., disfluency is anything that impedes the forward movement of speech. The preschool child is developing vocabulary, grammatical structures and the ability to talk about abstract ideas and events. Because these skills are not yet fully developed, there is a lack of automaticity. Hence, the child might struggle to find the word he wants to say to communicate his idea. Hence, it appears that for most youngsters, disfluency is part of the developmental process.

In the period between two to three years, children start acquiring early syntactic skills as they learn to join two or more words together. It has been observed that normally speaking children exhibit interruptions or breaks in fluency even in these early utterances (Yairi, 1981, 1982; Colburn and Mysak, 1982).

In the earlier studies, disfluency analyses were limited to defining and identifying only single instances of disfluencies (Johnson, Boehmler, Dahlstrom, Darley, Goodstein, Kools, Neelley, Prather, Sherman, Thurman, Trotter, Williams & Young) 1959; Haynes and Hood, 1977; Yairi, 1981, 1982). However, it can be noted that while some disfluencies appear to occur singly, there is a tendency for disfluencies to join or cluster together on same or adjacent words. Some studies have thrown light on the clustering phenomenon in preschoolers’ speech (Silverman, 1973; Colburn, 1985, Logan and LaSelle, 1999; Korah, Manuel and Narayanan, 2011).

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Anjana B. Ram, M.Sc. (Speech and Hearing), Ph.D. Candidate
Research Fellow
Department of Speech Language Sciences
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Naimisham Campus, Manasagangothri
Mysore 570006
Karnataka
India
anjana1111@yahoo.com

Savithri. S.R., Ph.D. (Speech and Hearing)
Professor, Department of Speech Language Sciences
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Naimisham Campus, Manasagangothri
Mysore 570009
Karnataka
India
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