If we look again at a comparison of the averaged rate increases from the comfortable to the faster rate, we find that the increase in SPS from the comfortable to the faster rate was virtually identical for the two groups: The increase was clutterers’ 1.37 SPS; the increase was 1.39 SPS. controls’ Sentence Repetition Task For the sentence repetition task, the participants were asked to repeat 4 sentences spoken by the experimenter. Each sentence comprised 10 syllables. (For example, when she heard the school No directions were given with “Mary ran bell ring.”) regard to the rate of the repetition. Nonetheless, with one exception, the participants repeated the sentences at a rate that was identical to or faster than the experimenter’s rate. The exception was a clutterer whose average syllable rate for the four sentences was .31 SPS slower than that of the experimenter. The averaged syllable rates of the four sentences for the experimenters, clutterers and controls are shown in Table 6: Table 6: Comparison of Mean Articulatory Rates with those of Experimenteers’ Clutterers and Controls for Sentence Repetition (Syllables/sec.) Clutterers’ Experimenters’ Controls’ Mean Rate Mean Rates Mean Rate 4.98 4.04 4.09 4.74
If we look again at a comparison of the averaged rate increases from the comfortable to the faster rate, we find that the increase in SPS from the comfortable to the faster rate was virtually identical for the two groups: The clutterers’ increase was 1.37 SPS; the controls’ increase was 1.39 SPS. Sentence Repetition Task For the sentence repetition task, the participants were asked to repeat 4 sentences spoken by the experimenter. Each sentence comprised 10 syllables. (For example, “Mary ran when she heard the school bell ring.”) No directions were given with regard to the rate of the repetition. Nonetheless, with one exception, the participants repeated the sentences at a rate that was identical to or faster than the experimenter’s rate. The exception was a clutterer whose average syllable rate for the four sentences was .31 SPS slower than that of the experimenter. The averaged syllable rates of the four sentences for the experimenters, clutterers and controls are shown in Table 6: Table 6: Comparison of Experimenteers’ Mean Articulatory Rates with those of Clutterers and Controls for Sentence Repetition (Syllables/sec.) Clutterers’ Mean Rate Experimenters’ Mean Rates Controls’ Mean Rate 4.98 4.04 4.09 4.74