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From: Julia Pape-Neumann
Date: 10/9/03
Time: 2:55:33 PM
Remote Name: 62.104.216.74
Dear Gunars, thank you for your congratulations to our project! As your comment is quite detailed I might not answer all of your questions so that other comments can be answered too tonight;-) But let me start with your first question: No, we did not you count pullouts, pre-pullouts, easy onsets, and elongation of vowels when we arrived at stuttering frequency levels. Included in stuttering frequency were blocks, prolongations and repetitions as we wrote in the manuscript. But the listeners` impression of the effort that was taken of a speaker to do pullouts, easy onsets and so on was estimated by rating speech naturalness with a 9-point scale (see manuscript) so that the aspects of effort and prosody were considered too. The scales we used did not address the question of unconditional self acceptance. This might be a good addition to our combination of scales but as we wrote in our article we have to make our program less expensive and that means not to add more questionnaires. It will be interesting to read what other consumers think about this topic! Julia