Perceptions of auditory components of stuttered speech.
Two student groups, one of speech pathology majors and one a class of mixed background fulfilling a humanities requirement, listened to the same set of sentences spoken first in nonstuttered and then in stuttered form. Subjects rated each replication along a set of 114 semantic differential-type adjectives but on 10-point unipolar scales. These scales had previously been factor analyzed and represented 31 positive and 29 negative perceptual factors. The results indicate that all college students react favorably to stuttered speech. However, six factor differences significant at the 0.05 level or above emerged between the two groups when evaluating the stuttered version. These results suggest that pathology students do not perceive stuttered speech as do nonpathology students; they are more favorably disposed on every dimemsion.
D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D013070:Speech Therapy; D013342:Stuttering