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ERIC Number: EJ775675
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Oct
Pages: 12
Abstractor: Author
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0269-9206
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Fluency Variation in Adolescents
De Andrade, Claudia Regina Furquim; Martins, Vanessa De Oliveira
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, v21 n10 p771-782 Oct 2007
The Speech Fluency Profile of fluent adolescent speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, were examined with respect to gender and neurolinguistic variations. Speech samples of 130 male and female adolescents, aged between 12;0 and 17;11 years were gathered. They were analysed according to type of speech disruption; speech rate; and frequency of speech disruptions. Statistical analysis did not find significant differences between genders for the variables studied. However, regarding the phases of adolescence (early: 12;0-14;11 years; late: 15;0-17;11 years), statistical differences were observed for all of the variables. As for neurolinguistic maturation, a decrease in the number of speech disruptions and an increase in speech rate occurred during the final phase of adolescence, indicating that the maturation of the motor and linguistic processes exerted an influence over the fluency profile of speech. (Contains 3 figures and 4 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Brazil
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