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From: Joseph Dewey
Date: 12 Oct 2005
Time: 12:29:10 -0500
Remote Name: 166.70.154.2
Hi Klaas Bakker, et al. Thanks very much for this comment. It is extremely interesting and informative. I wanted to explain my speech sample in terms of what you've written. There are areas of my speech sample that are rapid. However, pretty much everything in my speech sample is intelligible. In other cases of cluttering, the clutterer may say "swengutustr" and mean "and after those things then I'm going to go to the store." Also, clutterers can go extremely fast, much faster than my sample. I would guess that my cluttering is a little more discontinuous than most, even though you'll see that to some extent with every clutterer. You'll also see clutterers that are much more disrhythmic than my speech sample, such as changes in loudness that are inappropriate for the content. With my speech sample, a) many of the syllables or phrases were too fast in the absolute sense, even though it's possible to say everything that I said in that sample in just a few sentences, if it's done uncluttered. b) it would seem that if I would just slow down, then I could say everything fluently, and I think this sample demonstrates this. But I really believe that any rate of language was too fast for my speech and/or language to handle in this sample, and I think that the key to this point is that the speech and language system doesn't handle speech, rather than that there is an optimal reduced rate of speech for clutterers to speak at. c) I think that this sample demonstrates well an irregular and erratic rate. Also, my speech sample is a sample of "pure" cluttering, with no stuttering component.