Implementation of total productive maintenance: A case study

Chan, F. T. S., Lau, H. C. W., Ip, R. W. L., Chan, H. K. and Kong, S. (2005) Implementation of total productive maintenance: A case study. International Journal of Production Economics, 95 (1). pp. 71-94. ISSN 0925-5273

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Abstract

In contrast to the many published accounts of the disfluent repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words, cases where it is predominantly the final parts of words that are repeated have been reported relatively rarely. With few exceptions, those studies that have been published have described either pre-school children or neurologically impaired subjects. The purpose of this case report was to describe final part-word repetitions in the speech of two school-age boys of normal intelligence with no known neurological lesions. Their speech was recorded during spontaneous conversation, reading, and sentence repetition. The repetitions occurred in all three speaking conditions, although the majority of instances were observed in spontaneous speech, and on both content words and function words. The participants exhibited no apparent awareness of the disfluencies, no abnormal muscle tension, and no accessory behaviours. Each child produced word-final repeated fragments whose phonological structure was highly predictable according to his individual set of rules. The results are discussed in terms of possible motor and cognitive explanations for the disfluencies.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Innovation, Technology and Operations Management
Depositing User:	Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited:	01 Jan 2005
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2023 00:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/16479
DOI:	10.1016/j.ijpe.2003.10.021

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