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From taking a speech diary over a 24 hour period, it gave me a chance to have a look at my speech, topics of conversation, and also peck at where most of my conversations take place, which surprisingly seem to take place in groups of people.
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From taking a speech diary over a 24 hour period, it gave me a chance to have a look at my speech, topics of conversation, and also peck at where most of my conversations take place, which surprisingly seem to take place in groups of people. I have always viewed my speech to be very loud in tone and volume, but from my speech diary, this seems not to be the case. I seem to let other people do most of the talking and I add the odd backchannel or minimal response, for example 'Yer' or 'hmm'. This unplanned speech tends to be very random and seems to start from any old subject. (For example when I spoke about a bad drink I had, we all ended up talking for 20 minutes about many other bad drinks or experience we all had.) This type to speech contains lots of non-fluency...
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