0 present participle of stammer
1 to speak or say something with unusual pauses or repeated sounds, either because of speech problems or because of fear or nervousness :
[ + speech ] "Wh-when can we g-go?" she stammered.
He stuttered and stammered about having a busy schedule that week.
Her poem's stammering, frayed edges seek to chart a ' ' quintessential clarity of inarticulation ' ' (95).
There are no official statistics about the incidence of stammering.
Other children need assistance because of delayed or disordered articulation or speech patterns, or problems with fluency, such as stammering.
This is a highly professional body which deals with exceedingly complex problems of human communication, and not just with stammering.
We know that the frustration which this set up often resulted in such manifestations as stammering.
