Pausing and Stutttering

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Re: right on!

From: Tim Mackesey
Date: 20 Oct 2009
Time: 19:43:41 -0500
Remote Name: 68.211.166.172

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Pausing allows better onsets, light contacts, and pull-outs. It is counter to impulsive, rushed, and foreceful initiation of a word. Like my combination lock article here on ISAD, that pause is golden. Bloodstein wrote of the anticipatory struggle reaction preceding a stutter. That panic sensation REQUIRES a pause. A classic scenario: pws is at a social function when one of four listeners asks "where do you work?" If pws fears that word and jumps into it, a speech block is eminent. The pause allows time to relax the anatomy, perhaps smile, keep eye contact, and exhale into word.


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