Fluent speech, fast articulatory rate, and delayed auditory feedback: Creating a crisis for a scientific revolution?

Author(s): Kalinowski, J.

Journal/Book: Percept Mot Skills. 1996; 82: PO Box 9229, Missoula, MT 59807. Perceptual Motor Skills. 211-218.

Abstract: In 1970 Kuhn argued that science does not progress through a process of accretion. It is typified, rather, by the successive emergence of different paradigms which during their reign dictate the direction of normal science's puzzle-solving activity. Normal science inevitably exposes an anomaly which violates expectations predicted by the reigning paradigm. The ''crisis'' evoking anomaly may induce a destructive/constructive paradigm change. Transformations from one paradigm to another constitute a scientific revolution and dictate the growth and maturation of a field. This paper suggests the recent finding, that stutterers experience enhancement of fluency while speaking under delayed auditory feedback at a fast articulatory rate, be viewed as an anomaly. By challenging the notion that a slowed speech rate is necessary for amelioration of stuttering, the anomalous finding map be perceived as a crisis in the study of stuttering.

Note: Article A Stuart, Dalhousie Univ, Dept Psychol, Halifax, Ns B3H 4J1, Canada

Keyword(s): KINEMATIC ANALYSIS; STUTTERERS; NONSTUTTERERS

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