ArticlePsychology and aging2023
Do disfluencies increase with age? Evidence from a sequential corpus study of disfluencies.
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- Age and Discourse Task Independently Influence Disfluency Production.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- The Topography of Disfluency in Spoken Language: A Scoping Review.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) · 2026Review
- Ageing, Cognitive Deterioration, and Verbal Disfluency: A Case Study in Thailand.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Digital literacy and subjective wellbeing of young people: a mixed-methods approach based on SEM and fsQCA.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Age-Related Differences in Resting-State Functional Connectivity Predict Specific Patterns of Speech Disfluency.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Age-Related Differences in Speech Production and Resting State Functional Network Dynamics.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Introducing the NEURAL Research Lab Data Set for Studies of Discourse and Gesture in Aphasia and Cognitively Healthy Aging Adults.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Do disfluencies increase with age? Evidence from a sequential corpus study of disfluencies.Psychology and aging · 2023Article
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Abstract
Speech disfluencies such as repeated words and pauses provide information about the cognitive systems underlying speech production. Understanding whether older age leads to changes in speech fluency can therefore help characterize the robustness of these systems over the life span. Older adults have been assumed to be more disfluent, but current evidence is minimal and contradictory. Particularly noteworthy is the lack of longitudinal data that would help establish whether a given individual's disfluency rates change over time. This study examines changes in disfluency rates through a sequential design with a longitudinal component, involving the analysis of 325 recorded interviews conducted with 91 individuals at several points in their lives, spanning the ages of 20-94 years. We analyzed the speech of these individuals to assess the extent to which they became more disfluent in later interviews. We found that, with older age, individuals spoke more slowly and repeated more words. However, older age was not associated with other types of disfluencies such as filled pauses (
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