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From: Florence Myers
Date: 17 Apr 2010
Time: 08:44:14 -0500
Remote Name: 68.195.168.7
Yes, a challenge in studying cluttering is to find a way to record the speech in as naturalistic AND informal setting as possible and still abide by IRB regulations. Perhaps one way to do this is to have participants "wear" a recording device in one's everyday activities, after signing informed consent. Another suggestion is to ensure speaking activities that get at larger chunks of speech such as narratives (e.g., describing what happened at the party over the weekend to one's best friend). The latter maximizes the need to organize the motoric and/or linguistic units "against time"; that is, PWC often say they need to "spit everything out at once, and fast"! Short, structured, nonpropositional utterances---as in standardized articulation and language tests-- are not as likely to reveal cluttering. Flo