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Logan, Kenneth J.; Conture, Edward G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
Clause, syllable, and response latency characteristics of conversational utterances were assessed in 14 boys who stuttered and 14 normally fluent boys. Findings suggest that changes in the number of clausal constituents that must be constructed, stored, or coordinated within an utterance may influence the likelihood of speech errors and, hence,…
Descriptors: Children, Difficulty Level, Grammar, Language Impairments
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Yaruss, J. Scott; Conture, Edward G. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
Comparison of the speech fluency and phonology of 18 boys (mean age 61 months) who stuttered and demonstrated either normal or disordered phonology found that the two groups were generally similar in terms of their basic speech disfluency, nonsystematic speech error, and self-repair behaviors. Predictions of the covert repair hypothesis of…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Etiology, Males, Phonology