(a.) Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.
(n.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two middle-aged subjects, a male and female, with spastic dysphonia (hoarseness, stammering) were treated with both frontalis and throat muscle electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback.
(2) Analysis of these data and comparison with structural results from the preceding paper (Matthews, D.A., Bolin, J.T., Burridge, J.M., Filman, D.J., Volz, K.W., Kaufman, B. T., Beddell, C.R., Champness, J.N., Stammers, D.K., and Kraut, J.
(3) One can consider the relation to the mother, the accession to the spoken word, the voice's wealth and possibilities, the necessity of the listening and of silence, with in all its aspects the emergence of the differences in stammerer subject or not.
(4) The relative roles of heredity an environment in the expression of stammering were evaluated.
(5) [Pre-programmed only to ask questions, Small Talk begins to overheat and stammer] Erm, erm, no idea.
(6) He was also a man who overcame great hardship to become an MP and make it to the cabinet - born in Tredegar, forced to leave school at 13, self-taught and having struggled to overcome a debilitating stammer in his childhood.
(7) The children were examined for headaches, memory deterioration, difficulties in the learning, some types of tics, stammering, and psychomotor disinhibition.
(8) These observations are expected since the crystals were grown in the absence of divalent cations (Stuart, D. I., Levine, M., Muirhead, H., and Stammers, D. K. (1979) J. Mol.
(9) And just as our great moments in cinema concern stammering monarchs, so the likes of Garrone choose to examine criminality, and now the fetid scourge of reality TV.
(10) This delay enabled the badger cullers to drive away into the darkness and continue their work without having to suffer the terror of a journalist politely stammering, "Excuse me sir, how is the badger cull going?"
(11) A lot of people with speech impediments [French has a lifelong stammer] find themselves making puns, because if you get words and letters mixed up in your head you can make a joke of it.
(12) He was witty, sympathetic and generous, with an engaging stammer that tended to come and go.
(13) Yet Gentleman's article is moving in its description of all those taking part: struggling single mums; a teenager with acne, a stammer and life-long unemployed parents; drink and drug addicts; and a recovering cancer patient.
(14) I stammered out a few one-liners I’d written, and a couple of bits about being short largely filched from Ronnie Corbett.
(15) I'm Hadley from the Guardian and – " I stammered pathetically.
(16) As Blair stammered, huffed and shifted in his seat, Stewart concluded that: “19 people flew into the towers.
(17) A testing method is presented in which paired pictures are used which differ by the phonologic opposition of some stammered sounds.
(18) Did you know that King George VI had a very serious stammer?
(19) Asked by Mrs Tolstoy whether he has read War and Peace, Bulgakov stammeringly replies: "Many times."
(20) This could be a major factor disordering the interhemispheric relations in the stammering etiopathogenesis.