“Predicting cluttering among young adults” is a project of a team led by a well-known researcher and populariser of the phenomenon of disordered speech, Dr Monika Kaźmierczak from the Department of Polish Dialectology and Logopedics at the University of Łódź (UŁ). The team also includes three students of speech therapy and audiology at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Łódź. The project concerns raising awareness of cluttering.

Cluttering, or disordered speech, is a speech fluency disorder characterised by an excessively fast, irregular rate of speech, which manifests itself, among other things, in the occurrence of the so-called ordinary slurred speech, incorrect use of pauses, word and sentence stresses and excessive coarticulation. Chaotic way of linguistic formulation of thoughts is also mentioned among the features of cluttering.

Dr Kazmierczak’s team is currently conducting a survey ‘Students’ language behaviour’ using the Forms questionnaire. The survey in Polish is pioneering and the first such large-scale study of cluttering in Poland.