Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, München, Germany;Institut für Phonetik und sprachliche Kommunikation, München, Germany
Abstract:
Corresponding to the higher tension of muscles involved in speech production, a higher mean fundamental frequency should be expected in stutterers as compared to nonstutterers. It could be shown by the change scores of the mean fundamental frequency from reading to free conversation that stutterers tend to have a higher fundamental frequency during spontaneous speech.