Clustering of disfluency in nonstuttering childrens' early utterances

Colburn, Norma

doi:10.1016/0094-730x(85)90005-1

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“…A disfluency cluster was defined as the occurrence of two or more disfluencies in the same word and/or consecutive words (Colburn, 1985;Sawyer & Yairi, 2010). A disfluency cluster started when at least two disfluencies occurred adjacent to each other and ended when speakers either managed to continue their message fluently or when they abandoned the message and started a new utterance on a different topic.…”

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Disfluency clusters in typical and atypical finnish adult speech. A pilot study

Penttilä

Korpijaakko‐Huuhka

Bóna

2021

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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This study first aimed to investigate disfluency clusters in typical and atypical Finnish adult speakers. Secondly, it aimed to observe possible fluency strategies in speakers representing different fluency levels. In addition to individual disfluency types, we examined different characteristics of disfluency clusters produced by 23 speakers in a fluency continuum. Three adult speaker groups participated in this study: typical speakers with high disfluency frequencies (GA), typical and atypical speakers with very high disfluency frequencies (GB) and atypical speakers with the highest disfluency frequencies (GC). Data were based on a narrative speech task, and disfluency clusters were analysed with both traditional methods and alternative methods. Two statistically significant differences between the speaker groups were found: 1) the length of the clusters was highest in GC compared to other groups, and 2) speakers in GC formulated their utterances more than other groups. Other results, although nonsignificant, were that 3) speakers in GA revised utterances more often than interrupted them compared to GB and GC speakers, and 4) clusters using repetitive words and phrases to maintain fluency were found in GA and GB only. In this study, different fluency levels revealed different strategies in both the production of single disfluencies and in disfluency clusters. It seems that more fluent speakers formulate their messages differently than less fluent speakers, and repetitions can be used to maintain fluency and possibly prevent difficult clusters, as noted with more fluent speakers.

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Section: Analyses Of Disfluencies and Disfluency Clustersmentioning

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Disfluency clusters in typical and atypical finnish adult speech. A pilot study

Penttilä

Korpijaakko‐Huuhka

Bóna

2021

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Disfluency clusters in speakers with and without neurogenic stuttering following traumatic brain injury

Penttilä

Korpijaakko‐Huuhka

Kent

2019

Journal of Fluency Disorders

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Evaluating Stuttering in Young Children

Yaruss

LaSalle

Conture

1998

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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This study describes relationships between speech, language, and related behaviors exhibited during an initial diagnostic evaluation by 2- to 6-year-old children referred for evaluation of their speech and language development. These children were referred as a result of their parents’ concerns that they might be at risk for stuttering. Subjects were 100 children (85 boys and 15 girls; mean age=54.7 months; SD =12.2 months) who appeared to be representative of the children that clinicians are likely to evaluate in a clinical setting. Analyses were based on a retrospective examination of detailed diagnostic records prepared during the diagnostic evaluations. Results indicated that children recommended for treatment exhibited significantly higher scores than children recommended for reevaluation or for neither treatment nor reevaluation on all measures of speech fluency except the duration of disfluencies (which approached, but did not reach, significance). Importantly, analyses also revealed significant behavioral overlaps between children in the three recommendation subgroups, suggesting that absolute referral criteria probably should not be used when making treatment recommendations. In addition, diagnostic testing revealed that a proportion of these children exhibited concomitant difficulties with language, phonology, or oral motor skills, suggesting that stuttering is not necessarily independent of other aspects of children’s speech and language development. Based on the distribution of children’s scores on a variety of measures in this relatively large database, benchmarks are presented that may provide clinicians with a means for comparing their own treatment recommendations to those made by others.

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Clustering of disfluency in nonstuttering childrens' early utterances

Cited by 9 publications

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Disfluency clusters in typical and atypical finnish adult speech. A pilot study

Disfluency clusters in typical and atypical finnish adult speech. A pilot study

Disfluency clusters in speakers with and without neurogenic stuttering following traumatic brain injury

Evaluating Stuttering in Young Children

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