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  2. Stuttering - Wikipedia

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    Acute nervousness and stress do not cause stuttering, but they may trigger increased stuttering in people who have the speech disorder, and living with a stigmatized disability can result in anxiety and high allostatic stress load. Neither acute nor chronic stress, however, itself creates any predisposition to stuttering.

  3. Pressure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Pressure of speech mainly happens in the bipolar disorders, during the hypomanic and manic episodes. [3] [1] It also happens because of acute or chronic over-stress in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [4] [5] Thought disorders' symptoms like flight of ideas can induce pressured speech, with some degrees of circumstantiality or tangential ...

  4. Dysprosody - Wikipedia

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    In general, the voice modulations needed to express strong emotions are particularly difficult for patients with Parkinson's disease. Abnormal pauses in speech are also a characteristic of Parkinsonian dysprosody, including both pauses in general speech and intra-word pauses. A decrease in speech rate can also be observed in Parkinson's ...

  5. Speech error - Wikipedia

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    Speech errors are made on an occasional basis by all speakers. [1] They occur more often when speakers are nervous, tired, anxious or intoxicated. [1] During live broadcasts on TV or on the radio, for example, nonprofessional speakers and even hosts often make speech errors because they are under stress. [1]

  6. Utterance - Wikipedia

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    Non-fluency features also occur when producing utterances. As people think about what to say during conversations, there are errors and corrections in speech. For example, voiced/un-voiced pauses which are "umm", "erm", etc. in voiced pauses and in transcripts un-voiced pauses are denoted as (.) or (1) relating to the amount of time of the pause.

  7. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Wikipedia

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    CPR training: CPR is being administered while a second rescuer prepares for defibrillation. In 2010, the AHA and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation updated their CPR guidelines. [5]: S640 [20] The importance of high quality CPR (sufficient rate and depth without excessively ventilating) was emphasized. [5]:

  8. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The rhythm of the English language has four different elements: stress, time, pause, and pitch. Furthermore, "When stress is the basis of the metric pattern, we have poetry; when pitch is the pattern basis, we have rhythmic prose" (Weeks 11). Stress retraction is a popular example of phrasal prosody in everyday life. For example:

  9. Speech and language impairment - Wikipedia

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    Speech impairments can seriously limit the manner in which an individual interacts with others in work, school, social, and even home environments. Inability to correctly form speech sounds might create stress, embarrassment, and frustration in both the speaker and the listener.