Penttilä Nelly, Korpijaakko-Huuhka Anna-Maija, Bóna Judit
Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2022 Jan 2;36(1):1-16. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2021.1924861. Epub 2021 May 10.
This study first aimed to investigate disfluency clusters in typical and atypical Finnish adult speakers. Secondly, it aimed to observe possible fluency strategies in speakers representing different fluency levels. In addition to individual disfluency types, we examined different characteristics of disfluency clusters produced by 23 speakers in a fluency continuum. Three adult speaker groups participated in this study: typical speakers with high disfluency frequencies (GA), typical and atypical speakers with very high disfluency frequencies (GB) and atypical speakers with the highest disfluency frequencies (GC). Data were based on a narrative speech task, and disfluency clusters were analysed with both traditional methods and alternative methods. Two statistically significant differences between the speaker groups were found: 1) the length of the clusters was highest in GC compared to other groups, and 2) speakers in GC formulated their utterances more than other groups. Other results, although nonsignificant, were that 3) speakers in GA revised utterances more often than interrupted them compared to GB and GC speakers, and 4) clusters using repetitive words and phrases to maintain fluency were found in GA and GB only. In this study, different fluency levels revealed different strategies in both the production of single disfluencies and in disfluency clusters. It seems that more fluent speakers formulate their messages differently than less fluent speakers, and repetitions can be used to maintain fluency and possibly prevent difficult clusters, as noted with more fluent speakers.
本研究的首要目标是调查典型和非典型芬兰成年说话者的不流畅语群。其次，旨在观察代表不同流畅程度的说话者可能采用的流畅策略。除了个体不流畅类型外，我们还研究了流畅程度连续体中23名说话者产生的不流畅语群的不同特征。三个成年说话者组参与了本研究：不流畅频率高的典型说话者（GA组）、不流畅频率非常高的典型和非典型说话者（GB组）以及不流畅频率最高的非典型说话者（GC组）。数据基于一项叙事性言语任务，不流畅语群采用传统方法和替代方法进行分析。发现说话者组之间存在两个具有统计学意义的差异：1）与其他组相比，GC组的语群长度最长；2）GC组的说话者比其他组更频繁地组织话语。其他结果虽然不显著，但有：3）与GB组和GC组的说话者相比，GA组的说话者修改话语的频率高于打断话语的频率；4）仅在GA组和GB组中发现了使用重复单词和短语来维持流畅性的语群。在本研究中，不同的流畅程度在单个不流畅的产生和不流畅语群方面都揭示了不同的策略。似乎更流利的说话者组织话语的方式与不太流利的说话者不同，并且如更流利的说话者那样，重复可用于维持流畅性并可能防止出现困难的语群。
