On the Concept of Fluency

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Fluency and Portugese

From: Carolyn Zimmer, student
Date: 15 Oct 2008
Time: 20:11:01 -0500
Remote Name: 66.195.11.232

Comments

First, I would like to say your article was very informing and cleared up many questions I had regarding fluency. One that I still have in mind is regarding different languages. A friend of mine is Brazilian and speaks Portugese fluently, and it seems to me that his rate of speech is much faster than when he speaks English. If that is consistent for all Brazilian people, does the faster rate have an effect on fluency? It makes me wonder if it is more difficult for PWS to recover and sound more fluent if their native language has a fast speech rate. Thank you for your comments!


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