Speaking to a metronome reduces kinematic variability in typical speakers and people who stutter
These results demonstrate that kinematic variability during perceptibly fluent speech is increased in people who stutter compared with controls when repeating naturalistic sentences without any alteration or disruption to the speech. This extends our previous findings of greater variability in the movements of people who stutter when producing perceptibly fluent nonwords compared with controls. These results also show, that in addition to increasing fluency in people who stutter, metronome-timed speech also reduces articulatory variability to the same level as that seen in control speakers.
Authors
- Mark Chiew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6272-8783)
- Charlotte E. E. Wiltshire (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8523-6642)
- Gabriel J. Cler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-7336)
- Jennifer Chesters (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0843-7536)
- Jana Freudenberger
- Kate E. Watkins (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-482X)
- Máiréad P. Healy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4081-8275)
- Philip Hoole
Institutions
- Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (CA)
- Bangor University (GB)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- University of Washington (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (GB)
- Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2024-10-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309612
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Stuttering Research and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.28
Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Australian Government
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Royal Academy of Engineering
- European Commission
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Medical Research Council
- Economic and Social Research Council
- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre