Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Disfluency(also: Dysfluency, Speech Disfluency)
- Any interruption or break in the normal flow of speech, including repetitions, prolongations, blocks, interjections (such as "um" or "uh"), and revisions. While all speakers experience occasional disfluencies, their frequency and severity distinguish typical speech from…
- Dysfluency(also: Disfluency, Speech Dysfluency)
- An interruption in the normal flow of speech, including repetitions of sounds, syllables, or words ("b-b-because"), prolongations of sounds ("ssssnake"), blocks (silent pauses where speech is temporarily stopped), and interjections ("um", "uh"). While occasional dysfluencies are…
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