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From: Peter Louw
Date: 09 Oct 2012
Time: 09:15:10 -0500
Remote Name: 196.23.50.162
Dear Dr Bohnen, many thanks for your answers. I have always been fascinated by techniques that enhance fluency such as slowed speech onset. Slowed onset and slowing the first syllable, or first two syllables, seem to reduce stuttering, and I have always thought that this is due to reduced vocal fold tension. But recently a speech pathologist told me that fast speech in itself does not reduce fold tension. If fast speech in itself does not reduce fold tension, why does slow speech at onset improve fluency? Would it be because the tension threshold beyond which stuttering would occur, is much lower at onset? Maybe like a car which is started early in the morning when cold - when cold, more effort is required, but when already in motion much less energy is needed? Many thanks for your answer and kind regards.