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From: Klaas Bakker
Date: 03 Oct 2007
Time: 15:42:20 -0500
Remote Name: 146.7.150.239
I think you have a great observation about speech rate being variable in PWS, and being rushed close moments of stuttering. Obviously such rushing (if confirmed through empirical research) could either be cause for, or consequence of stuttering. I am not aware of any specific research findings about this, but am personally interested in the phenomenon. Most research quoting speech of PWS being slow is based on averaging WPM or SPM of entire speech samples, and thus is insensitive to the subtle rate variations you are referring to. At the same time it is not very easy to measure rate variability, or to find a way to objectively determine if speech can be disproportionately fast around stuttering, at least in some PWS. I share your interest, but cannot confirm from research known to me this is a fact.