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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 15 Apr 2010
Time: 08:32:38 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121
Hi Robin, I really liked your paper. I'll no doubt refer to it if a related question is posed in the definition "point-counterpoint" paper. David Ward and I tried to prepared some "pithy" material to stimulate some discussion about the critical issue of definition. For what it's worth, I will mention your paper next week at the European Symposium on Fluency Disorders and will make the point that it is similar in many ways to a position taken by Klaas Bakker. In many of our discussions, Klass has expressed that cluttering might best be defined in terms of the factors that emerge from a study of a very large number of "clutterers" (rather informally defined at the outset). Your proposed database is wonderful, but have you considered that a substantial, standard battery of tests might well strengthen it? Recognizing the huge commitment of work involved, such tests would allow the sort of post hoc factor or cluster analysis that Klaas has contemplated. Speech and nonspeech measures would both be included. Again...very nice work! Ken