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Meaning of "disfluent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISFLUENT

disfluent  [dɪsˈfluːənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISFLUENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disfluent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DISFLUENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of disfluent in the English dictionary

The definition of disfluent in the dictionary is lacking fluency in speech.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISFLUENT


attuent
ˈætjuːənt
circumfluent
sɜːˈkʌmfluːənt
creant
ˈkriːənt
criant
ˈkriːənt
defluent
ˈdefluːənt
eluant
ˈɛljuːənt
eluent
ˈɛljuːənt
fluent
ˈfluːənt
pursuant
pəˈsjuːənt
revehent
rɪˈviːənt
suent
ˈsjuːənt
truant
ˈtruːənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISFLUENT

disfeaturement
disfellowship
disfellowshipped
disfellowshipping
disfiguration
disfigure
disfigured
disfigurement
disfigurer
disflesh
disfluency
disforest
disforestation
disform
disfranchise
disfranchisement
disfrock
disfunction
disfurnish
disfurnishment

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISFLUENT

abluent
affluent
confluent
consequent
constituent
delinquent
diffluent
diluent
effluent
frequent
influent
interfluent
mass affluent
mellifluent
nonaffluent
profluent
refluent
subaffluent
subsequent
unaffluent

Synonyms and antonyms of disfluent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «disfluent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISFLUENT

Find out the translation of disfluent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of disfluent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disfluent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

disfluent
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

disfluente
570 millions of speakers

English

disfluent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

disfluent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

disfluent
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

disfluent
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

disfluente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

disfluent
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

disfluent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berkemungkinan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

disfluent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

非流暢
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

disfluent
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Disfluent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

disfluent
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

disfluent
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरघळणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

disfluent
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

disfluent
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

disfluent
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

disfluent
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

disfluent
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

disfluent
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

disfluent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

disfluent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

disfluent
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disfluent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISFLUENT»

The term «disfluent» is used very little and occupies the 182.485 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISFLUENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disfluent

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISFLUENT»

Discover the use of disfluent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disfluent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Phonological Encoding and Monitoring in Normal and ...
Disfluent (2): Prolongation, subsyllabic repetition, drawl, or broken word. the time the phonetic plan is buffered. The longer there 15. Stuttering on function and content words 273. 0 Disfluent ( 1 ) Block Fluent 0.1 Disfluent (2) Block Fluent > 0.2 ...
Robert J. Hartsuiker, Roelien Bastiaanse, Albert Postma, 2005
2
The Processing and Acquisition of Reference
If the disfluency shifts attention to discourse- new entities, the “disfluent” condition should lead to an increase in looks to the target when it was new, and a bigger cohort effect when it was given. The results supported these predictions. Starting  ...
Edward Gibson, Neal J. Pearlmutter, 2011
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Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference
The correlation existed also between the mean fluency rating and the frequency of disfluent pauses (Spearman's Correlation = -0.657, p < 0.001) and between the mean fluency rating and the total frequency of pauses (Pearson's Correlation  ...
Plinio A. Barbosa, Sandra Madureira, César Reis.
4
Coping with Stuttering
You may even become disfluent when you are excited and you are having a difficult time expressing yourself exactly the way you want to. But these speech disfluencies pass. If you still are not sure whether you are a stutterer or someone who ...
Melanie Ann Apel, 2000
5
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the ...
gether in time, particularly in presentation modes (e.g. rapid list intonation, time- compressed speech) which make perception and encoding very difficult. Disfluent speech may provide naturally-occurring circumstances for repetition deafness: ...
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Sharon J. Derry, 1998
6
Producing Speech: Contemporary Issues: For Katherine Safford ...
For the other two subjects, disfluencies occurred on only one of the test words, and comparisons between fluent and disfluent utterances were restricted to repetitions of the particular test word for each subject. The average number of ...
Katherine S. Harris, Fredericka Bell-Berti, Lawrence J. Raphael, 1995
7
Stuttering and Related Disorders of Fluency
Procedure A Count each syllable or word as either fluent or disfluent. Each syllable or word should be counted only once, regardless of the type or number of disfluencies that accompany its production. Thus, if disfluent words are counted, ...
Edward G. Conture, Richard F. Curlee, 2011
8
Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a First ...
The proportion of looking to the novel object in the two seconds before the onset of the target label (the period of disfluency in disfluent trials) for the three age groups. The error bars denote standard errors novel/unmentioned object was ...
Inbal Arnon, Eve V. Clark, 2011
9
The Experience of Thinking: How the Fluency of Mental ...
Participants in the fluent condition only correctly recalled 72.8 percent of the material, while those in the disfluent condition correctly recalled 86.5 percent. In other words, people had better memory for information presented in a disfluent ...
Christian Unkelbach, Rainer Greifeneder, 2013
10
Stuttering: An Integrated Approach to Its Nature and Treatment
Other researchers have acknowledged this and expanded the study of fluent speech by contrasting it with disfluent speech. Dalton and Hardcastle (1977), for example, distinguished fluent from disfluent speech by differences in the variables ...
Barry Guitar, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISFLUENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disfluent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Meet Donnie Sengstack, a stuttering sophomore stand-up
“I had a very disfluent day today and I turned on your stand-up and felt better,” the fan wrote. “I didn't set out to inspire stutterers,” Sengstack ... «Diamondback Online, Nov 14»
2
People Don't Trust You If Your Name Is Hard to Pronounce
For instance simply furrowing one's eyebrows can make something feel disfluent or difficult to process. Anyway, for Quvenzhané Wallis, Saoirse ... «Jezebel, May 14»
3
Classroom practice – Why bold isn't always best for learning
Indeed, the trio behind the 2010 US report argue that using what are termed “disfluent” fonts in the classroom could have significant benefits for ... «TES News, Mar 14»
4
Does Thinking Fast Mean You're Thinking Smarter?
... harder to read version (a disfluent one). The people who had to work harder ended up processing the text more deeply and responding to the questions more ... «Smithsonian, Mar 14»
5
For DC, a mayoral candidate fluent in Anacostia, art and Arabic
He suffered from a terrible stutter and was 80 percent disfluent into his early 30s — in both Arabic and English. He may be an artist, an activist ... «Al Jazeera America, Jan 14»
6
I Can Say My Name
... in a stutterer's mindset: “I spoke less, feeling out of place, and afraid to produce the disfluent speech that I had worked so hard to get rid of. «Yale Daily News, Jan 14»
7
The Secret Science of Stock Symbols
Like companies with complex names, rarer currency instruments are more “disfluent” because they're unfamiliar. Those who responded while ... «New Yorker, Nov 13»
8
Why “Simple” Websites Are Scientifically Better
... the site didn't load fast enough, the photos weren't high enough resolution – the working memory processes those disfluent “chunks” instead ... «Business 2 Community, Nov 13»
9
Yahoo Mail Background Annoys Users, Taxes Brains
A key problem with reverse type (and, in this case, fairly low contrast type) is that it is “disfluent.” Our brains find reading it more difficult, and this ... «Forbes, Sep 13»
10
Weiner's Wiener? Too perfect to be a coincidence.
Which makes us want to lean towards decisions that mirror our own names, because they "feel" better than other, more disfluent options. «Scientific American, Jul 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Disfluent [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/disfluent>. Apr 2024 ».
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