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A disfluence or nonfluence is a non-pathological hesitance when speaking, the use of fillers (“like” or “uh”), or the repetition of a word or phrase. This needs to be distinguished from a fluency disorder like stuttering with an interruption of fluency of speech, accompanied by "excessive tension, speaking avoidance, struggle behaviors, and secondary mannerism".
In psychology, logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Ancient Greek λόγος logos "word" and ῥέω rheo "to flow") is a communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness, which can cause incoherency.
Image credits: cooldart61 #9. It was my sophomore year English class, this kid who was reading his essay in front of the class and started to stumble over some of the words.
Palilalia (from the Greek πάλιν (pálin) meaning "again" and λαλιά (laliá) meaning "speech" or "to talk"), [1] a complex tic, is a language disorder characterized by the involuntary repetition of syllables, words, or phrases.
Taylor Swift shocked audience members and social media viewers alike this weekend when footage circulated of her crying on stage and having a rare moment of stumbling over words as she addressed ...
We’re speaking over video call; Gonzalez’s surprisingly baritone voice floats out of a black screen. He talks in a low but hurried murmur, stumbling over words as he chases after his train of ...
Anomic aphasia, also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia, is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). [1]
There have been several instances where he publicly stumbled — including when he fell down the stairs to Air Force One in ... “The halting and the pauses and the stumbling over words can be ...