文摘
The subject of this article is to study peculiarities of monoligical speech organization, inherent to adult stutterers and observed on lexical, grammatical, semantic, temporal (pausing process), and intonational levels. We analyzed the 2-minute spontaneous speech samples about “My Work” from 66 adult stutterers and 20 fluent speakers. In the stutterers' speech, we found (1) a smaller number of syntactic and hesitation pauses; (2) intonationally, the sintagmatic partitions of the text were broken up; (3) the level of word variety was reduced; (4) an enhanced number of verbal paraphrases; (5) the appearance of grammatical and semantic mistakes; and (6) breaking up of logic and coherency of utterance. Our results expose deficiency of intraspeech programming by stutterers and lowered control of the sense of utterance.
