Gender and Speech Disfluency Production: a Psycholinguistic Analysis on Turkish Speakers

Regarding the linguistic units involved in disfluency production, our analysis pointed out that the slips of the tongue occurred mostly between sounds at phonological level and all participants mostly repeated words instead of sounds and word groups. 1'.risen (2010) mentions that 54.27% of the slips of the tongue in his study are phonological, and Turkish having more phonological errors might be related to a higher demand on working memory because of the head-final SOV (SubjectObject-Verb) sentence structure. Our findings supported this assumption. In conclusion, gender did not affect the linguistic units involved in slip of the tongue and repetition types of disfluency production.

In sum, the current study provides unique information as we have studied an understudied language in a large spoken corpus. One of the main contributions of this study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of how different types of speech disfluency are used by female and male native speakers of Turkish from four different age groups in impromptu and unprepared speech situations. This will help us to understand the mechanisms underlying speech disfluencies and implement them in language models to get a deeper understanding of controlled and automatic phases of speech production. Furthermore, our quantitative analyses and analyses regarding the position of speech disfluencies unraveled that there were some psycholinguistic/ sociolinguistic and language specific factors influencing the production rates and position of disfluencies in female and male speech. These factors should be analyzed in more detail in future studies to verify our assumptions.

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