Effects of simulated stuttering on listener recall

Cyprus, Shelly; Hezel, Richard T.; Rossi, Debbie; Adams, Martin R.

doi:10.1016/0094-730x(84)90012-3

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“…Whereas this previous work has tended to focus on whether the speaker is perceived as a native versus a non-native speaker or whether the content of the speech matches listeners' perceptions of the speaker, the current work demonstrates that the speaker's tendency to stutter also affects basic sentence processing mechanisms. As discussed in the Introduction, previous work has shown that stuttering can impair listeners' memory for the content of utterances (Cyprus et al, 1984;Panico & Healey, 2009). The current work extends these findings by showing that the presence of stuttering affects mechanisms of linguistic prediction that are detectable during the moment-to-moment online processing of language.…”

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“…There have, however, been some studies investigating how listeners' memory for linguistic content is affected by stuttering. Cyprus, Hezel, Rossi, and Adams (1984) used a between-subjects design to determine the extent to which simulated stuttering affected recall of an audio-recorded message, using mildly versus severely stuttered speech together with a no-stuttering control. In addition, disfluencies varied in whether they appeared on words of high versus low information value (essentially, on content words or function words).…”

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Processing of self-repairs in stuttered and non-stuttered speech

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Maxfield

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2019

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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Previous research suggests that listeners can use the presence of speech disfluencies to predict upcoming linguistic input. But how is the processing of typical disfluencies affected when the speaker also produces atypical disfluencies, as in the case of stuttering? We addressed this question in a visual-world eye-tracking experiment in which participants heard self-repair disfluencies while viewing displays that contained a predictable target entity. Half the participants heard the sentences spoken by a speaker who stuttered, and half heard the sentences spoken by the same speaker who produced the sentences without stuttering. Results replicated previous work in demonstrating that listeners engage in robust predictive processing when hearing self-repair disfluencies. Crucially, the magnitude of the prediction effect was reduced when the speaker stuttered compared to when the speaker did not stutter. Overall, the results suggest that listeners' ability to model the production system of a speaker is disrupted when the speaker stutters.

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Processing of self-repairs in stuttered and non-stuttered speech

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Maxfield

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2019

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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“…These studies have largely concentrated on the identification of stuttering (Cordes, 2000;Runyan & Adams, 1978, 1979Wendahl & Cole, 1961;Williams & Kent, 1958), the effects of stuttering upon story comprehension and listener recall (Cyprus, Hezel, Rossi, & Adams, 1984), the effects of computer generated stimuli on listeners' perceptions of stuttered speech (Leach, Wolfolk, Fucci, & Gonzales, 1995, 1997, 2002, and listeners' reactions to the use of speech modification techniques by people who stutter (Manning, Burlison, & Thaxton, 1999;Przymus, 2002).…”

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Listener perceptions of stuttering across two presentation modes: A quantitative and qualitative approach

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Journal of Fluency Disorders

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“…Cyprus, Hezel, Rossi and Adams (1984) extended this line of work by comparing effects of mild (i.e., relatively infrequent) stuttering on sentence recall to severe stuttering in addition to a no-stuttering control condition. In this study, disfluencies were strategically placed on words of high or low information value (essentially, on content words or function words).…”

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Backward-looking sentence processing in typically disfluent versus stuttered speech: ERP evidence

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2018

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

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The aim was to determine how backward-looking sentence processing is affected by typically-disfluent versus stuttered speech. Two listener groups heard Garden Path (GP) and control sentences. GP sentences contained no disfluency, a silent pause, or a filled pause before the disambiguating verb. For one group, the sentence preambles additionally contained stuttering-like disfluencies. Comprehension accuracy, event-related potentials (ERPs) time-locked to disambiguating verbs, and perceptual speaker ratings, were compared between groups. The With Stuttering group perceived the speaker as less competent but had better comprehension accuracy for GP sentences. ERPs to disambiguating verbs in GP sentences included a P600 component, indexing backward-looking sentence processing, but only for the No Stuttering group. Other ERP components, elicited to GP sentences with silent/filled pauses, did not differ between groups. Results suggest that listeners abandon prior expectations when processing sentences containing stuttering-like disfluencies, possibly because they lack a speaker model defined by the presence of stuttering.

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Effects of simulated stuttering on listener recall

Cited by 12 publications

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Processing of self-repairs in stuttered and non-stuttered speech

Processing of self-repairs in stuttered and non-stuttered speech

Listener perceptions of stuttering across two presentation modes: A quantitative and qualitative approach

Backward-looking sentence processing in typically disfluent versus stuttered speech: ERP evidence

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