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Disfluent vs Disfluency - What's the difference?

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Disfluency is a related term of disfluent.



As an adjective disfluent

is an alternative form of dysfluent.

As a noun disfluency is

lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.

disfluent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • disfluency

    Noun

  • Lack of fluency in speech; any of various breaks, irregularities, and non-lexical vocables that occur within otherwise fluent speech.
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