ABSTRACT
Chapters 10 and 11 presented correlational evidence that common speech disruptions are positively associated with anxiety in the speaker. In the two studies reported in those chapters the frequency of the Non-ah speech disturbances, defined and illustrated in chapter 9, increased with increments in clinically assessed anxiety. The primary purpose of the study reported in this chapter was to obtain experimental evidence concerning the anxiety-speech disturbance relationship and to do so with male speakers.
