On the Concept of Fluency

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Re: Skill learning, skill execution, anxiety

From: Sandra Merlo
Date: 08 Oct 2008
Time: 16:02:37 -0500
Remote Name: 201.95.204.66

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Hello Mark, thanks for your question. Yes, I know you are working on the definition of stuttering. For me “fluency” is a linguistic concept. So I think “fluency” has to be defined with language parameters (hesitations, reformulations, speech rate, etc). Anxiety can affect fluency and stuttering, but it affects them through linguistic parameters (increasing hesitations and reformulations, decreasing speech rate and smoothness, etc). So I don’t think it is necessary to include anxiety to define fluency. I think anxiety should be best understood as a non-linguistic parameter that can affect linguistic parameters. Best wishes, Sandra


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