A Comparison of Young Stutterers’ Fluent Versus Stuttered Utterances on Measures of Length and Complexity
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Vol. 34 (1) , 37-42
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.3401.37
Abstract
This investigation attempted to clarify the relationship between stuttering in young children and the language factors of length and grammatical complexity. Sentences containing stutterings within the first few words, as produced by 12 stutterers (4–6 years old) in spontaneous conversational dyads, were analyzed for length and grammatical complexity. Results indicated that sentences in which an episode of stuttering occurred within the first three words were significantly longer and more complex than sentences that were free of perceptible stuttering and all other forms of fluency failure. Implications of these findings for the clinician are presented and discussed.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effects of Gradual Increases in Sentence Length and Complexity on Children's DysfluencyJournal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1987
- The effects of syntactic complexity on the occurrence of disfluencies in 5 year old nonstutterersJournal of Fluency Disorders, 1986
- Mother and Child Speech Rates as a Variable in Stuttering and DisfluencyJournal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1985
- StutteringJournal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1983
- Fluency, nonfluency, and stuttering in childrenJournal of Fluency Disorders, 1982
- Syntactic influences on stuttering in young child stutterersJournal of Fluency Disorders, 1981
- The effect of grammatical complexity upon disfluency behavior of nonstuttering preschool childrenJournal of Fluency Disorders, 1980
- A Comparison of Fathers' and Mothers' Speech with Their Young ChildrenChild Development, 1979
- Disfluency changes in children as a function of the systematic modification of linguistic complexityJournal of Communication Disorders, 1977
- A First LanguagePublished by Harvard University Press ,1973