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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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Coalson, Geoffrey A.; Byrd, Courtney T.; Davis, Barbara L. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
The primary purpose of this study was to re-examine the influence of phonetic complexity on stuttering in young children through the use of the Word Complexity Measure (WCM). Parent-child conversations were transcribed for 14 children who stutter (mean age = 3 years, 7 months; SD = 11.20 months). Lexical and linguistic factors were accounted for…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Stuttering, Disabilities, Young Children
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Anderson, Julie D.; Byrd, Courtney T. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of "phonotactic probability", which is the frequency of different sound segments and segment sequences, on the overall fluency with which words are produced by preschool children who stutter (CWS) as well as to determine whether it has an effect on the type of stuttered disfluency…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Preschool Children, Speech Skills, Phonology