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Arenas, Richard M.; Zebrowski, Patricia M.; Moon, Jerald B. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2012
Phonetically governed changes in the fundamental frequency (F[subscript 0]) of vowels that immediately precede and follow voiceless stop plosives have been found to follow consistent patterns in adults and children as young as four years of age. In the present study, F[subscript 0] onset and offset patterns in 14 children who stutter (CWS) and 14…
Descriptors: Speech, Vowels, Preschool Children, Phonetics
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Watson, Jennifer B.; Byrd, Courtney T.; Carlo, Edna J. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2011
Purpose: To explore the effects of utterance length, syntactic complexity, and grammatical correctness on stuttering in the spontaneous speech of young, monolingual Spanish-speaking children. Method: Spontaneous speech samples of 11 monolingual Spanish-speaking children who stuttered, ages 35 to 70 months, were examined. Mean number of syllables,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spanish Speaking, Speech, Stuttering
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Bauman, Jessica; Hall, Nancy E.; Wagovich, Stacy A.; Weber-Fox, Christine M.; Ratner, Nan Bernstein – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify whether different patterns of errors exist in irregular past-tense verbs in children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS). Method: Spontaneous language samples of thirty-one age- and gender-matched pairs of children (total N = 62) between the ages of 24 months and 59 months were…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Speech, Stuttering, Language Skills
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Smith, Anne; Goffman, Lisa; Sasisekaran, Jayanthi; Weber-Fox, Christine – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2012
Stuttering is a disorder of speech production that typically arises in the preschool years, and many accounts of its onset and development implicate language and motor processes as critical underlying factors. There have, however, been very few studies of speech motor control processes in preschool children who stutter. Hearing novel nonwords and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Impairments, Speech, Stuttering