disfluency
noun/ˈdɪsflʊənsi/
Etymology
From dis- + fluency.
- borrowed from fluentia
Definitions
Lack of fluency in speech
Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.
- To the long list of everyday afflictions that includes dry, itchy skin and restless leg syndrome, add another: speech disfluency.
- Siegel considered at some length, without resolving it, the apparent paradox between traditional views of stuttering and modern demonstrations that punishment (i.e. contingent aversive stimulation) tends to decrease disfluency.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for disfluency. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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