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Savage, Ceri; Howell, Peter – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
The specific mechanisms that underlie childhood stuttering are not fully understood. The current study investigated these mechanisms by comparing the effect on fluency of priming different components of a short sentence. The main findings were that: (1) both children who stutter (CWS) (n = 12, M age = 6;3) and children who do not stutter (CWNS) (n…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Form Classes (Languages), Speech Language Pathology, Linguistic Theory
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Au-Yeung, James; Howell, Peter; Pilgrim, Lesley – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
Stuttering on function words was examined in 51 children and adults who stutter. Stuttering rate was a function of age (children stuttered more on function words), position (function words in early positions in utterances were more likely to be stuttered), and on whether the function word occurred before or after the single content word.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Articulation (Speech), Children