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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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Smits-Bandstra, Sarah; De Nil, Luc – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Two studies compared the accuracy and efficiency of initiating oral reading of nonsense syllables by persons who stutter (PWS) and fluent speakers (PNS) over practise. Findings of Study One, comparing 12 PWS and 12 PNS, replicated previous findings of slow speech sequence initiation over practise by PWS relative to PNS. In Study Two, nine PWS and…
Descriptors: Speech Skills, Stuttering, Oral Reading, Syllables
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Boey, Ronny A.; Wuyts, Floris L.; van de Heyning, Paul H.; Heylen, Louis; de Bodt, Marc S. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Clinical diagnostic procedures to distinguish stuttering from non-stuttering individuals partially rely on the observation of characteristics of stuttered words or syllables. The purpose of this study was to examine the sensitivity and specificity of such a procedure, and to describe the observed characteristics of stuttered words. Methods…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Oral Reading, Stuttering, Indo European Languages