Characteristics of stuttering-like disfluencies in Dutch-speaking children

Boey, Ronny A.; Wuyts, Floris L.; Heyning, Paul Van de; Bodt, Marc De; Heylen, Leen

doi:10.1016/j.jfludis.2007.07.003

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“…The greater occurrence of prolongations and blocks in the spontaneous speech of individuals who stutter can be justified by the possibility of relation between the stuttering and some difficulties in the functioning of the basal ganglia, which it is imagined to affect negatively the time required to achieve the production of speech and language. Thus, these timing misalignments might contribute to the production of prolongations (28,29) . Nevertheless, regardless of the explanation to such results, it is important to note that in the comparison between the groups, the frequency and diversity of types of disruptions decreased in the reading of both stutterers, non-stutterers.…”

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Disfluências e velocidade de fala em produção espontânea e em leitura oral em indivíduos gagos e não gagos

Pinto

Schiefer

Ávila

2013

Audiol., Commun. Res.

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Purpose: To investigate and characterize temporal parameters of speech in spontaneous situation and in oral reading in people who stutter and who do not stutter, and investigate the relation among these variables. Methods:Thirty participants aged between 17 and 59 years, with a minimum of 08 years of scholar education, constituted the Study Group, composed by 15 people who stutter and the Control Group with 15 people who did not stutter. Subjects on the Control and Study Group were matched by gender, age and education level. After anamnesis it was made: brief neuropsychological assessment, specific stuttering assessment and specific oral reading assessment. Disfluencies were analyzed and it was calculated speech rate on spontaneous production and oral reading. Results: There were more disfluencies in spontaneous speech than in text oral reading in both groups. As to speech rate, in the Control Group, pseudoword and text reading were positively correlated, and in the Study Group, all variables were positively correlated. Conclusion:Speech rate and disfluencies analysis characterized both groups, either in spontaneous speech and reading situations which evidenced performance profiles differentiated by speech rate, frequency and disfluency typology. Investigation showed that people who stutter present lower values of speech rate, as well as higher occurrence of disfluencies, either on spontaneous speech and oral reading, in comparison to people who do not stutter. neuropsicológica breve, específica da gagueira e específicas da leitura.As disfluências foram analisadas e calculou-se a velocidade da fala espontânea e na leitura oral. Resultados: Ocorreram mais disfluências na fala espontânea que na leitura oral de texto, em ambos os grupos. Em relação à velocidade, no Grupo Controle, a leitura de pseudopalavras e de texto correlacionaram-se positivamente e no Grupo Estudo, todas as variáveis correlacionaram-se positivamente. Conclusão: A análise da velocidade e das rupturas de fala caracterizou ambos os grupos, tanto em situação de fala espontânea, quanto na leitura que evidencia perfis de desempenho diferenciados pela velocidade de fala, frequência e tipologia das rupturas. A investigação demonstra que indivíduos gagos apresentaram valores mais baixos de velocidade, assim como maior ocorrência de disfluências, tanto na fala espontânea quanto na leitura oral, em comparação com indivíduos não gagos.

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Disfluências e velocidade de fala em produção espontânea e em leitura oral em indivíduos gagos e não gagos

Pinto

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Ávila

2013

Audiol., Commun. Res.

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“…Around 80% of the children produced between 3.00 and 8.99 total disfluencies per 100 syllables with higher proportions of NSD than SLD: 2.9% NSD vs. 1.92% SLD in three-year-olds, and 3.42% vs. 2.66% in fiveyear-olds. Boey et al (2007) observed a mean of 0.42 SLD per 100 words in Dutch-speaking preschool children (mean age: 69 months) within free play and conversational interaction with the examiner. Other disfluencies were not described.…”

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Beyond stuttering: Speech disfluencies in normally fluent French-speaking children at age 4

Leclercq

Suaire

Moyse

2017

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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The aim of this study is to establish normative data on the speech disfluencies of normally fluent French-speaking children at age four, an age at which stuttering has begun in 95% of children who stutter (Yairi & Ambrose, 2013). Fifty monolingual French-speaking children who do not stutter participated in the study. Analyses of a conversational speech sample comprising 250 to 550 words revealed an average of 10% total disfluencies, 2% stuttering-like disfluencies, and around 8% nonstuttered disfluencies. Possible explanations for these high speech disfluency frequencies are discussed, including explanations linked to French in particular. The results shed light on the importance of normative data specific to each language.

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“…To date, however, there is a dearth of systematic study examining the potential connections among these variables in languages other than English, including Spanish. Bernstein Ratner, 2004;Boey, Wuyts, Van de Heyning, De Bodt, & Heylen, 2007;Carias & Ingram, 2006;Centeno, Anderson, & Obler, 2007;Roberts & Shenker, 2007;Van Borsel, Maes, & Foulon, 2001). Crosslinguistic comparisons have the potential to reveal common characteristics and underlying attributes of stuttering, as well as to provide insights into the fundamental connections between stuttering and linguistic aspects of the languages.…”

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“…A number of studies have been completed examining disfluencies and stuttering in monolingual and /or bilingual speakers who speak languages other than English, including German (e.g., Dworzynski, Howell, Au-Yeung, & Rommel, 2004;Dworzynski, Howell, & Natke, 2003;Natke, Sandrieser, Pietrowsky, & Kalveram, 2006), Dutch (e.g., Boey et al, 2007), Mandarin (e.g., Lim, Lincoln, Chan, & Onslow, 2008), Ga (Kirk, 1977), Igbo (Nwokah, 1988), Maltese (Agius, 1995), and Portuguese (e.g., Juste & de Andrade, 2006). Reports describing stuttering in Spanish speakers, on the other hand, remain relatively few-particularly in light of the growing number of Spanish speakers in the United States (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2008).…”

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Effects of Length, Complexity, and Grammatical Correctness on Stuttering in Spanish-Speaking Preschool Children

Watson

Byrd

Carlo

2011

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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Purpose: To explore the effects of utterance length, syntactic complexity, and grammatical correctness on stuttering in the spontaneous speech of young, monolingual Spanishspeaking children. Method: Spontaneous speech samples of 11 monolingual Spanish-speaking children who stuttered, ages 35 to 70 months, were examined. Mean number of syllables, total number of clauses, utterance complexity (i.e., containing no clauses, simple clauses, or subordinate and /or conjoined clauses), and grammatical correctness (i.e., the presence or absence of morphological and syntactical errors) in stuttered and fluent utterances were compared. Results: Findings revealed that stuttered utterances in Spanish tended to be longer and more often grammatically incorrect, and contain more clauses, including more subordinate and /or conjoined clauses. However, when controlling for the interrelatedness of syllable number and clause number and complexity, only utterance length and grammatical incorrectness were significant predictors of stuttering in the spontaneous speech of these Spanish-speaking children. Use of complex utterances did not appear to contribute to the prediction of stuttering when controlling for utterance length. Conclusions:Results from the present study were consistent with many earlier reports of English-speaking children. Both length and grammatical factors appear to affect stuttering in Spanish-speaking children. Grammatical errors, however, served as the greatest predictor of stuttering.

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Characteristics of stuttering-like disfluencies in Dutch-speaking children

Cited by 40 publications

References 34 publications

Disfluências e velocidade de fala em produção espontânea e em leitura oral em indivíduos gagos e não gagos

Disfluências e velocidade de fala em produção espontânea e em leitura oral em indivíduos gagos e não gagos

Beyond stuttering: Speech disfluencies in normally fluent French-speaking children at age 4

Effects of Length, Complexity, and Grammatical Correctness on Stuttering in Spanish-Speaking Preschool Children

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