#3573. Adults who stutter do not stutter during private speech

October 2026publication date
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Journal’s subject area:
Language and Linguistics;
Linguistics and Language;
LPN and LVN;
Speech and Hearing;
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Cognitive Neuroscience;
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Abstract:
This phenomenon is difficult to study because it is difficult to know whether participants perceive that they are truly alone and not being heard or observed. Twenty-four participants were audio-/video-recorded while speaking in several conditions: 1) conversational speech; 2) reading; 3) private speech, in which deception was used to increase the probability that participants produced speech intended for only themselves; 4) private speech+, for which real-time transcription was used so that participants produced the same words as in the private speech condition but while addressing two listeners; and 5) a second conversational speech condition. Stuttering frequency was similar for the remaining conditions. Future work should disentangle whether this is due to the removal of concerns about social evaluation or judgment, self-monitoring, or other communicative processes.
Keywords:
Fluency; Private speech; Self-monitoring; Social evaluation; Stuttering; Talk-alone-effect

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