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From: Sandra Merlo
Date: 26 Oct 2008
Time: 19:30:10 -0600
Remote Name: 201.43.64.84
Dear Nohemi, thank you for your question. If a speaker presents more than 10% of common disfluencies in his/her speech and is not a non-native speaker, we say that he/she is a disfluent speaker. But I think it is not possible that this kind of speaker doesn’t have any language pathology. Disfluencies arise from difficulties with language planning (“what to say”) or with verbalization (“how to say”). So I think this kind of speaker has some language problem (examples: an unsatisfactory vocabulary for his/her necessities, difficulties with discourse production, difficulties with syntactical construction, etc). Best regards, Sandra