Abstract
Three groups of forty subjects listened individually to one of four recordings of voluntary disfluencies. Disfluencies took the form of either one or two-unit repetitions and contained either the correct vowel or the stressed neutral vowel in place of the correct vowel. Each listener rated the speaker on a five point scale where 1 represented the most fluent rating and 5 represented the least fluent rating. Results indicated no significant difference in the ratings of the four recordings. Overall severity ratings decreased as training in speech pathology increased. Graduate students in Speech Pathology rated three of the four tapes as being significantly more fluent than the non-Speech Pathology undergraduates. While Speech Pathology graduate students tended to rate the four tapes as being more fluent than did the Pre-professional Speech Pathology students, only one tape was rated significantly different.
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