(v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
(v. t.) To utter or pronounce with hesitation or imperfectly; -- sometimes with out.
(n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter.
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.
Stutter
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
(n.) The act of stuttering; a stammer. See Stammer, and Stuttering.
(n.) One who stutters; a stammerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results suggested that the parent variables that were significantly related to the child's primary stuttering were not the same as those significantly related to her secondary stuttering.
(2) This may be interpreted as support for Kent's (1983) hypothesis that stutterers may be poorer at temporal processing.
(3) The two experiments have replicated and extended, under different conditions, the earlier findings of a letter sequence transcription deficit in stutterers, but the nature of the interference still remains to be clarified.
(4) Contrary to Taylor (1966) there were significant correlations between stuttering and grammatical class even when initial phoneme and word in sentence were held constant.
(5) In a control condition, eight stutterers read one of two matched passages aloud five times in succession.
(6) The consistency with which stuttering tends to occur on the same words in successive readings of a passage, though high enough to warrant the assumption that stuttering is a response to stimuli, is generally far from perfect.
(7) To contribute to the Geschwind-Galaburda theory of cerebral lateralization, we examined the relationship of left-handedness to allergic disorders and stuttering, using epidemiological data of two French samples, one of which (N = 9591) is representative of the French male population between 17 and 24 years of age.
(8) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
(9) Stuttering affects 1% of the adult population, though 5% of children about the age of five develop the condition, with most growing out of it after childhood.
(10) Results support the conclusion that stuttering, seen on the symptomatic level of disfluencies produced, is a prosodic disturbance.
(11) These bipolar scales were derived from words previously judged by speech clinicians as descriptive of stutterers and antonyms of those words.
(12) In all it began with word amnesia or stuttering, and in one to five years impairment of auditory comprehension, and reading and writing difficulties with kanji (Japanese morphograms) appeared.
(13) This paper reviews the various approaches that have been made toward the investigation of speech quality in stuttering treatment.
(14) The results demonstrated predictable trends in speech naturalness during the program, but they also showed that natural sounding speech is not a predictable outcome of a procedure that removes stuttering, controls speaking rate, and exposes clients to transfer procedures.
(15) Finally, no difference was found in the posttreatment naturalness ratings of stutterers rated as mild, moderate, and severe before treatment.
(16) In this article, acoustic analyses are reported which show that the spectral properties of stuttered vowels are similar to the following fluent vowel, so it would appear that the stutterers are articulating the vowel appropriately.
(17) The original headline and first sentence suggested that the GM mice stuttered.
(18) In the present study, surface electrodes were used to describe the perioral reflexes in 7 stutterers and 5 nonstutterers.
(19) On two-dimensional gels, the faulty proteins were shown as a trail of spots with molecular weights similar to those of the authentic proteins but separated in the isoelectric focusing dimension, a phenomenon we call "stuttering."
(20) The home support took out their anger on the referee Mike Dean and it intensified when Maloney, following that straight-on, stuttering run, bent the ball brilliantly beyond Wojciech Szczesny.