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Abdalla, Fauzia; Robb, Michael P.; Al-Shatti, Tareq – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The purpose of this study was to test whether the content and function word dichotomy of speech disfluency found in English-speaking adults who stutter (AWS) was evident in a language other than English. A group of adult Arabic-speaking AWS were sampled across spontaneous speaking, oral reading, and single-word naming tasks. Moments of disfluency…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Oral Reading, Stuttering
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Tsiamtsiouris, Jim; Cairns, Helen Smith – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2009
Purpose: To test the hypotheses that adults who stutter will be slower in producing syntactically complex sentences than fluent adults and will benefit more from sentence-structure priming than will fluent adults. Method: Adults who stutter (n = 15) and fluent adults (n = 15) participated in 2 experiments. In Experiment 1, adults in both groups…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Adults, Control Groups