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From: Sandra Merlo
Date: 17 Oct 2012
Time: 19:43:51 -0500
Remote Name: 187.37.38.51
Hi Kerrin. I think sleep deprivation is affecting your speech in several ways: as your attention and concentration are lowered, you cannot adequately concentrate to select and order information in your spoken texts; as your memory may not be so good, you may forget if something was said or not; you probably also have difficulties to remember some words while speaking, specially the unfamiliar ones. These factors may increase your disfluency levels and decrease your speech rate, affecting your fluency. I think if you compare your actual speech with your speech before sleep deprivation, you will find some differences. Sandra