Abstract The current study examined the extent to which cognitive fluency (CF) contributes utterance (UF) at level of constructs. A total 128 Japanese-speaking learners English completed four speaking tasks—argumentative task, picture narrative reading-to-speaking and reading-while-listening-to-speaking task—and a battery linguistic knowledge tests, capturing vocabulary size, lexical retrieval ...

The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between reading fluency, writing speaking comprehension, and vocabulary. A correlational survey method was used in research. data for were collected 2018-2019 academic year. total 94 5th grade students from 9 different schools, 8 state schools 1 private school, city center Kars formed group socioeconomic levels homogeneous. According results...

1. Cluttering is a fluency disorder characterized by a rate that is perceived to be abnormally rapid, irregular, or both for the speaker, and... a. This rate problem causes one or more of the following: b. An excessive number of disfluencies c. The frequent placement of pauses and odd prosodic patterns d. Inappropriate/excessive degree of coarticulation, especially in multisyllabic words e. (St...

The ability to generate items belonging to categories in verbal fluency tasks has been attributed to frontal cortex. Nonverbal fluency (e.g., design fluency) has been assessed separately and found to rely on the right hemisphere or right frontal cortex. The current study assessed both verbal and nonverbal fluency in a single group of patients with focal, frontal lobe lesions and age- and educat...

This paper describes an experiment aimed at determining whether speech. automatic assessment of second language learners’ fluency in This experiment produced interesting results in two respects, spontaneous speech is feasible and whether it differs from a. fluency assessment by expert raters and b. the relationship automatic fluency assessment in read speech. Spontaneous speech between expert f...

BACKGROUND/AIMS In Alzheimer's dementia (AD), letter fluency is less impaired than category fluency. To check whether category fluency and letter fluency depend differently on semantics and attention, 53 mild AD patients were given animal and letter fluency tasks, two semantic tests (the Verbal Semantic Questionnaire and the BORB Association Match test), and two attentional tests (the Stroop Co...

Age-related declines in verbal fluency among a large sample of older adults were investigated. Background variables, verbal knowledge, and speed of processing were examined as predictors of verbal fluency and as mediators of age effects. As expected, age-related declines were greater on the excluded letter fluency task than on the initial letter fluency task. Verbal knowledge was a better predi...

Intellectually bright children in Grades 2, 4, and 6 from one school and adults were assessed on measures of verbal and on a new measure of figural fluency. Consistent with previous research, age-dependent performance was observed on both fluency tasks. Analysis of covariance with motor speed as the covariate reduced the F ratio for the figural task, although age-related significant differences...