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Meanings of disfluency in English

Lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing.

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        1
        Find your Tandem partner, start chatting, and speak your way to fluency!
        The South African
        2
        It is history, our forgotten history, written with fluency, diligence and wisdom.
        The Guardian
        3
        So, having these digital fluency skills in your toolbox becomes absolutely essential.
        Wired
        4
        The effect would be an increase in fluency and hopefully fewer accidents.
        The Brain, A Decoded Enigma
        5
        The words followed each other with greater fluency and in richer abundance.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 / A Magazine...
        Usage of disfluency in English
        1
        Other disfluencies did not differentiate the groups.
        Pubmed
        2
        The group presenting the syndrome also showed a higher average for stuttering disfluencies, with pause as the most frequent disfluency.
        Pubmed
        Frequent collocations
        Disfluency through the time