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Re: Voicing vs. Articulation

From: Ken Logan
Date: 14 Oct 2010
Time: 07:41:46 -0500
Remote Name: 98.70.129.81

Comments

Em, I agree with all that Kevin and Lynne said, but just wanted to add one more point. I think your question gets at whether rehearsal of a motor plan can facilitate fluency, and for that question the answer is a qualified "yes"...That is, I think the rehearsal works best when the target utterance is spoken aloud. (As you may know, this has been called the adaptation effect.) Unfortunately, the benefits of such practice usually aren't long lasting. For example, if in a therapy setting a clinician asked me to say my name and I stuttered while saying it the first time, I could (usually) get to saying it fluently simply by repeating my name over and over and over. So, by the 10th time, I may say my name smoothly and with no impending sense of "getting stuck." If, however, the clinician asks me to say my name again 30 minutes later, it's very likely that I'd be right back to stuttering.


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