An analysis of speech disfluencies of Turkish speakers: Influence of educational background
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This research aims to analyze the influence of educational background on Turkish native speakers’ production rates of speech disfluencies. 56 native speakers of Turkish between ages 33-50 years and over 50-year-olds took part in the study. Each group was divided into two sub-groups according to the educational background of the participants. Prepared and unprepared speech samples of each participant were gathered via face-to-face interviews that were recorded and transcribed. As a result, participants with higher education levels produced more filled gaps than elementary/middle school graduates. In the prepared speech, over 50-year-old male elementary/middle school graduates produced more hesitations than male professors, and 33-50-year-old male elementary/middle school graduates produced more slips of the tongue than males with higher education. In unprepared speech situation, 33-50-year-old male elementary/middle school graduates produced more false starts than bachelor’s/master’s-doctoral degree holder males; however, over 50-year-old female professors produced more false starts than elementary/middle school graduate females.
Keywords: Linguistics, speech production, Turkish speech, speech disfluencies, educational background
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