Effect of audience reaction upon fluency rates of six stutterers |
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Authors: | Donald E. Mowrer |
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Affiliation: | Department of Communication, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281, USA |
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Abstract: | Each of six male stutterers spoke to a 14 member audience for 40 min. This speaking time was divided into eight 5-min periods during which several consequence conditions were in operation. Those consequence conditions consisted of various combinations of “good” and “stop” statements delivered by the audience following fluent and disfluent utterances, respectively. In one condition the speaker applied the consequences. It was found that while various combinations of consequences do not alter the total number of words spoken per minute, they affect the number of occasions of disfluences occuring per minute. It could not be determined which condition resulted in optimum rate changes. Suggestions are presented for maintaining fluent speech. |
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