fluency
Sign in to saveAlso known as verbal fluency, volubility, eloquency
Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency) refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort in speech production. It is also used to characterize language production, language ability or language proficiency.
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- Definition
- Language use
- Types
- In second-language acquisition
- Second-language acquisition in children
- Second-language acquisition in adults
- Speech-language pathology
- Automatic assessment of language fluency
- In creativity
- See also
- References
Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency) refers to continuity, smoothness, rate, and effort in speech production. It is also used to characterize language production, language ability or language proficiency.
In speech language pathology fluency means the flow with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are joined when speaking quickly, where fluency disorder has been used as a collective term for cluttering and stuttering.
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