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Juste, Fabiola Staroble; Sassi, Fernanda Chiarion; de Andrade, Claudia Regina Furquim – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the exchange of disfluencies from function words to content words with age in Brazilian Portuguese speakers who do and do not stutter. Ninety stuttering individuals and 90 controls, native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, were divided into three age groups (children, adolescents and adults). The study…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Native Speakers, Speech, Stuttering
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Ardila, Alfredo; Ramos, Eliane; Barrocas, Robert – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Stuttering patterns may differ when comparing two languages. In bilinguals, specific patterns of stuttering in each one of the languages may potentially be found. This study reports on the case of a 27-year-old Spanish/English simultaneous bilingual whose dominant language is English. Speech and language testing was performed in both languages…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Speech, Stuttering, Language Tests
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van Lieshout, Pascal H. H. M.; Bose, Arpita; Square, Paula A.; Steele, Catriona M. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
Apraxia of speech (AOS) is typically described as a motor-speech disorder with clinically well-defined symptoms, but without a clear understanding of the underlying problems in motor control. A number of studies have compared the speech of subjects with AOS to the fluent speech of controls, but only a few have included speech movement data and if…
Descriptors: Speech, Aphasia, Stuttering, Speech Impairments