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From: Ken Logan
Date: 10 Oct 2006
Time: 15:16:35 -0500
Remote Name: 128.227.115.216
Hello everyone: I was reading your posts on final- sound repetitions and thought I'd add a few (belated) thoughts. First, I agree with the others that it is not very common, at least as a primary characteristic of disfluent speech. I've seen only a handful of people over years who repeat final sounds frequently. In contrast with classic developmental stuttering, these individuals had relatively limited awareness of the repetitions. It may be that they repeated the final sounds to buy time for retrieving/producing the upcoming word, but it's difficult to say for sure what the source of the repetitions were. I saw one person who repeated the final word or words of a sentence, sometimes multiple times, gradually tapering off to a whisper with each successive repetition. This was done even when the person was finishing a speaking turn (i.e., there were no upcoming words). Granted, this is not exactly like final sound repetition, but I've wondered whether the two patterns have some common basis.