The Animal Verbal Fluency (AVF) and Design Fluency (DF) structured and unstructured test versions were administered to N = 294 healthy native Dutch-speaking children who were aged between 6.56 and 15.85 years. The AVF and DF structured test scores increased linearly as a function of age, whilst the relation between age and the DF unstructured test score was curvilinear (i.e., the improvement in...

When speakers detect a problem in what they are saying, they must decide whether or not to interrupt themselves and repair the problem, and if so, when. Speakers will maximize accuracy if they interrupt themselves as soon as they detect a problem, but they will maximize fluency if they go on speaking until they are ready to produce the repair. Speakers must choose between these options. In a co...

Word finding difficulty is a known impairments in multiple sclerosis (MS). The purpose of this study is to adapt homophone meaning generation test to Persian language, and then examine word storage and access in multiple sclerosis patients through these three word-finding tests. This study examined the word retrieval in 90 Persian speaking patients with multiple sclerosis and 90 matched healthy...

Willingness to communicate (WTC) has recently been researched as a dynamic variable, with some investigations viewing it complex system (CDS). One important property associated CDS is the notion of attractor states, which are characterized by stable patterns behavior. The present study employed an idiodynamic method monitor per-second WTC changes 20 participants during three-minute speaking tas...

For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting's cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments. Research suggests that cultural cues may affect judgments through automatic priming, but has yet to investigate consequences for linguistic performance. The present studies investigate the proposal that heritage-culture cues hinde...

PURPOSE To examine the effects and generalization of a modified script training intervention, delivered partly via videoconferencing, on dialogue scripts that were produced by 2 individuals with aphasia. METHOD Each participant was trained on 2 personally relevant scripts. Intervention sessions occurred 3 times per week, with a combination of in-person meetings and videoconferencing, and last...

Minimizing cognitive resources while executing wellpracticed motor tasks has been shown to increase automaticity and enhance performance (e.g., Beilock, Carr, Macmahon, & Starkes, 2002). Based on this principle, we examined whether more fluent speech production could be induced through a dual task paradigm that engaged working memory (WM) while speech was produced. We also considered whether ef...

PURPOSE This study was designed to (a) compare the speech fluency of school-age children who do and do not stutter (CWS and CWNS, respectively) within 2 standard diagnostic speaking contexts (conversation and narration) while also controlling for speaking topic, and (b) examine the extent to which children's performance on such discourse tasks is affected by age. METHOD Participants were 44 s...

This study investigates an undergraduate student with her Cinderella complex. Observation and videotape were undertaken from agentive interactions lectures as a single case the iterative unstructured model analysis. The findings showed Ocha’s high motivation during attending speaking classes, although pronunciation, fluency, grammar, vocabulary still unsatisfactory. behaviors looked different o...