an unintentional interruption in speech such as a hesitation or slur
2.
an impairment in the ability to produce smooth speech
disfluency in American English
(dɪsˈfluːənsi)
nounWord forms: plural(for 2)-cies
1. Pathology
impairment of the ability to produce smooth, fluent speech
2.
an interruption in the smooth flow of speech, as by a pause or the repetition of a word or syllable
Also: dysfluency
Word origin
[1975–80; dis-1 + fluency]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: family therapy, gravitational lens, gridlock, hybridoma, methanogen
Examples of 'disfluency' in a sentence
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This supports our assumption that disfluency activates analytic monitoring that remains for succeeding fluent text.
Elisabeth Pieger, Christoph Mengelkamp, Maria Bannert 2018, 'Disfluency as a Desirable Difficulty—The Effects of Letter Deletion on Monitoringand Performance', Frontiers in Educationhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2018.00101/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Disfluency theory also supposes that disfluency initiates analytic processes and thus, improves performance.
Elisabeth Pieger, Christoph Mengelkamp, Maria Bannert 2018, 'Disfluency as a Desirable Difficulty—The Effects of Letter Deletion on Monitoringand Performance', Frontiers in Educationhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2018.00101/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
By contrast, back-channels do not increase the disfluency rate of passive speakers.
Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Gilles Adda, Martine Adda-Decker, Claude Barras, BenoîtHabert, Patrick Paroubek 2013, 'Une étude quantitative des marqueurs discursifs, disfluences et chevauchements deparole dans des interviews politiques', TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langagehttp://journals.openedition.org/tipa/830. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Several phenomena of disfluency can be observed in the utterances of spontaneous oral conversation.
Bertille Pallaud, Stéphane Rauzy, Philippe Blache 2013, 'Auto-interruptions et disfluences en français parlé dans quatre corpus du CID', TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langagehttp://journals.openedition.org/tipa/995. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We calculated the speech rupture frequency and the percentage of stutterer's disfluency.
Vanessa Pires Costa, Jamile Konzen Albiero, Helena Bolli Mota 2011, 'Aspectos da fluência da fala em crianças com e sem desvio fonológico evolutivo Aspectsof speech fluency in children with or without evolutive phonological disorder', Revista CEFAChttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-18462011005000063. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Surprising stimuli are schema-discrepant and thus entail cognitive disfluency, which elicits immediate negative affect.
Sascha eTopolinski, Fritz eStrack 2015, 'Corrugator Activity Confirms Immediate Negative Affect in Surprise', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00134/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Phrase repetition was the only type of typical disfluency which showed a statistically significant difference between the groups.
Natália Casagrande Brabo, Ana Maria Schiefer 2009, 'Habilidades de praxia verbal e não-verbal em indivíduos gagos Verbal and non-verbalpraxic abilities in stutterers', Revista CEFAChttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-18462009000800003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Structurally, disfluency ratings were negatively correlated with white matter connections to left perisylvian regions and to the brain stem.
Kevin Richard Sitek, Kevin Richard Sitek, Shanqing eCai, Shanqing eCai, Deryk ScottBeal, Deryk Scott Beal, Deryk Scott Beal, Deryk Scott Beal, Deryk Scott Beal, JosephS Perkell, Joseph S Perkell, Frank eGuenther, Satrajit S Ghosh, Satrajit S Ghosh 2016, 'Decreased cerebellar-orbitofrontal connectivity correlates with stuttering severity:Whole-brain functional and structural connectivity associations with persistent developmentalstuttering', Frontiers in Human Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00190/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, although disfluency did impact performance, disfluency did not produce a positive benefit related to overall task performance.
Christopher A. Sanchez, Jamie S. Naylor 2018, 'Disfluent presentations lead to the creation of more false memories', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0191735. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)