Hearing your voice through bone and air: Implications for explanations of stuttering behavior from studies of normal speakers
Authors:
Peter Howell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology University College London London, England
Moorfields Eye Hospital London, England
Abstract:
Cherry and Sayers (1956) reported that stutterers have problems dealing with sound fed back to the ears through bone. Their experimental support for this claim is reexamined. It is shown that their technique does not produce the same bone-conducted feedback as produced by the speaker while speaking. Their results are reinterpreted as showing that stutterers have problems when speaking in the presence of low frequency sound because of its masking properties, rather than because the sound originates in bone-conducted feedback.