In the poster entitled "Predicting cluttering in young adults: preliminary results of students’ self-assessment", the winners presented preliminary results of their team's research.
The University of Lodz students talked about the research organisation, its results and conclusions drawn from them while working on the project in front of the competition jury, which was composed of: Prof. Dobrinka Georgieva (Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Prof. J Scott Yaruss (Michigan State University, USA) and Dr Susanne Cook (Chair, International Cluttering Association, USA/Germany). They also had the opportunity to share the emotions and impressions they had while working in Dr Kaźmierczak's team with researchers from 16 countries.
Cluttering , i.e. cluttered speech is a fluency disorder characterised by a too fast and/or irregular rate of speech, which is manifested, among others, by the occurrence of the so-called common disfluency of speech, incorrect use of pauses, word and sentence stresses, excessive coarticulation (pronouncing sounds with the use of speech systems appropriate for neighbouring sounds). Chaotic way of linguistic formulating of thoughts is also mentioned among the features of cluttering. The survey in Polish conducted by a team led by Dr Monika Kaźmierczak has been a pioneering and first large-scale study on cluttering in Poland.
We would like to offer our sincere congratulations to the students and their supervisor!
Source: Dr Monika Kaźmierczak, Department of Polish Dialectology and Logopaedics at the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz
Edit: Communications and PR Centre, University of Lodz