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Peer reviewedSilverman, Stacy W.; Ratner, Nan Bernstein – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997
This study investigated whether syntactic complexity exerts an influence on the frequency of stuttering in the speech of seven adolescents who stuttered and seven who were normally fluent. Although normal disfluencies and errors in repetition accuracy increased as syntactic complexity increased, stuttering frequency did not appear to be affected…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Imitation
