Disfluency

It is an example of the positive effects of what scientists call "disfluency". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sen. Clinton, who is often criticized as over-rehearsed, blitzed through a question about nuclear energy at 207 words per minute without a disfluency. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mark Liberman of Language Log has a very suggestive entry about the disfluency of the Wolof elite, as described in Judith Irvine's "Wolof Noun Classification: The Social Setting of Divergent Change" (Language in Society, 7: 37-64 (1978)), at least as he remembers it:...upwardly mobile men among the Wolof nobility cultivate inarticulateness as a sign of status. ❋ Unknown (2004)

To me, native speaker equivalence means that, apart from disfluency, you only make "native speaker mistakes." ❋ Unknown (2004)

Keeping with the theme of the research, they titled their paper, "Fortune favors the bold and the italicized: Effects of disfluency on educational outcomes." ❋ Unknown (2011)

We'd found that disfluency led people to think harder about things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shorn of the Teleprompter, he not only runs the risk of revealing a disfluency that could rival (or even exceed?) that of his reviled predecessor George Bush - he may reveal who he truly is, an angry man with a profoundly radical agenda for America. ❋ Unknown (2009)

 A Word About Fluency -  We all go through a stage of disfluency. ❋ Unknown (2008)

disfluency, can actually help young children learn language. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I documented lots of Kevin Madden's goofs, gaffs, pratfalls, moments of disfluency, attempts to botch even the simplest of messages, and naive and transparent lies on my "who is Willard Milton Romney" blog. " ❋ Unknown (2008)