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Conversational Turn Length and Fluency Measurement in Aphasia

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	Gallardo-Paúls, Beatriz Perfil; Moreno Campos, Verónica
	This document is a Comunicación/PonenciaDate2013
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	A common assumption regarding fluency is that the difference between a fluent and non-fluent speaker can be easily stated (Poeck, 1989; Gordon, 1998). However, there is no objective and valid measure to determinate the level of a person with aphasia on the fluency continuum. Traditionally, people with aphasia have been classified as fluent or non-fluent following the cognitive criteria. In ecologycal data we find that 7,3 words-per-turn value is a valid measure in Spanish and Catalan to delimit fluent and non-fluent speakers. These results emphasize the importance of the quantitative analysis of fluency in speech in its natural environment. As well, the measure of 7,3 words-per-turn not only can determinate the difference between fluent and non-fluent speaker, but allows the diagnosis of severe fluency deficits as logorrhea or mutism.
	Moreno-Campos, Verónica y Gallardo-Paúls, Beatriz (2013): "Conversational Turn Length and Fluency Measurement in Aphasia". Poster presented at XIV International Conference Sciece of Aphasia (SOA). Brussels, September 2013.