Complexity of Rhythmic Tapping Task and Stuttering

Anneke Slis (1) , Christophe Savariaux (2, 3) , Pascal Perrier (1) , Silvain Gerber (3) , Maëva Garnier (1)

1 GIPSA-PCMD - GIPSA - Perception, Contrôle, Multimodalité et Dynamiques de la parole
2 GIPSA-CRISSP - GIPSA - Cognitive Robotics, Interactive Systems, & Speech Processing
3 GIPSA-Services - GIPSA-Services

The study investigated whether people who stutter (PWS) differed in rhythmic tapping behavior compared to people who do not stutter (PNS). 16 PWS and 16 PNS, matched in age and gender, were instructed to synchronize with a metronome beat, to continue this pattern once the beat stopped, or to fill in the time between two metronome beats with several taps. Tapping measures on variability, mean inter response intervals, and the number of missed taps were retrieved. The results showed that, compared to PNS, PWS differed in tapping behavior. Tapping variability was higher in PWS than PNS on all the tasks. In addition, PWS missed more taps then PNS, especially in the condition in which they had to fill in the time with extra taps. Finally, musical experience affected tapping variability: the most experienced participants showed the lowest degree of variability. These findings lay the groundwork for our larger study that includes more complex tapping patterns and speech production data.

Domaines: Linguistique; Psychologie

Anneke Slis, Christophe Savariaux, Pascal Perrier, Silvain Gerber, Maëva Garnier. Complexity of Rhythmic Tapping Task and Stuttering. ISSP 2020 - 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, Dec 2020, Rhodes Island, United States. ⟨hal-03096266⟩