Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
J Fluency Disord. 2011 Dec;36(4):280-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2011.07.001. Epub 2011 Jul 28.
The objective of this research was to compare the number and types of grammatical and non-grammatical silent pauses presented by stutterers and subjects with Asperger syndrome in their narratives.
Ten children who stutter and four participants with Asperger syndrome (mean ages of both groups 10 years) were assessed at the Speech and Language Disorders Department of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Brasil. They narrated a story based on a pre-selected sequence of pictures. They were filmed and their productions were analyzed using version 5.0.47 of Praat (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/download_win.html). Silent intervals in the speech that ranged from 0.25 to 4s were considered pauses. The pauses were classified as grammatical and non-grammatical, depending on the words that preceded and followed them.
Both groups presented grammatical and non-grammatical pauses and the former predominated. The children with Asperger syndrome produced a greater number of pauses than the stutterers.
The reader will be able to: (1) characterize the use of pauses in the oral narrative; (2) distinguish a grammatical pause from a non-grammatical pause regarding the use and function; (3) recognize the pattern of pause found in the two populations.
本研究旨在比较口吃者和阿斯伯格综合征患者在叙述中出现的语法性和非语法性静默停顿的数量和类型。
在巴西圣保罗联邦大学言语语言障碍系评估了 10 名口吃儿童和 4 名阿斯伯格综合征患者（两组的平均年龄均为 10 岁）。他们根据预先选择的图片序列讲述一个故事。对他们进行录像，并用 Praat 版本 5.0.47（http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/download_win.html）分析他们的讲述。将持续 0.25 到 4 秒的语音中的静默间隔视为停顿。根据停顿前后的单词，将停顿分为语法性和非语法性。
两组都出现了语法性和非语法性停顿，且前者更为常见。阿斯伯格综合征患者比口吃者产生了更多的停顿。
读者将能够：（1）描述口头叙述中停顿的使用情况；（2）区分停顿在用法和功能上的语法性和非语法性；（3）识别两种人群中发现的停顿模式。
