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disfluency

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Noun1.disfluency - lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing
unskillfulness - a lack of cognitive skill
fluency - skillfulness in speaking or writing
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Stuttering that begins during a child''s intensive language-learning years and resolves on its own sometime before puberty is called normal disfluency.
Stuttering-Causes, Types and Therapy by peterhutch / Health, general community
With its strong introduction in the history of language and disfluency from ancient Greece to modern times to its survey of how slips of the tongue gained new meaning from psychology, both popular culture and literature figure in a survey which is a funny yet pointed study of everyday speech and language development.
Um: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean by The Bookwatch
Stuttering is a disfluency that causes them to repeat some of their words' syllables.
Eliminate the Stutterings by David Riewe / Self Improvement community
 
 
 
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