Exchange of disfluency with age from function to content words in Brazilian Portuguese speakers who do and do not stutter

Juste, Fabíola Staróbole; Sassi, Fernanda Chiarion; Andrade, Cláudia Regina Furquim de

doi:10.3109/02699206.2012.728278

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“…It may be that CWS between 7 and 10 years of age (age range of the children included in this study) experience more difficulties with open- than with closed-class words. Evidence that with increasing age, stuttering events decrease in closed-class words and increase in open-class words in many languages supports this (Au-Yeung, Gomez, & Howell, 2003; Dworzynki, Howell, Au-Yeung, & Rommel, 2004; Howell, Au-Yeung, & Sackin, 1999; Juste, Sassi, & Andrade, 2012). This suggestion could also explain why CWS tend to score lower on standardized measures of receptive vocabulary, which usually use open-class words, than do their normally fluent peers (Anderson & Conture, 2000; Murray & Reed, 1977; Ntourou et al, 2011; Pellowski & Conture, 2005).…”

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Children who stutter exchange linguistic accuracy for processing speed in sentence comprehension

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Applied Psycholinguistics

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Comprehension of predicates and reflexives was examined in children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS) who were between 9 years, 7 months and 10 years, 2 months. Demands on working memory and manual reaction time were also assessed in two experiments that employed a four-choice picture-selection sentence comprehension task. CWS were less accurate than CWNS on the attachment of predicates. For reflexives, there was no between-group difference in accuracy, but there was a difference in speed. The two constructions induced processing at different points on a speed–accuracy continuum with CWS sacrificing accuracy to respond fast with predicates, while they maintained accuracy of reflexives by responding slower relative to CWNS. Predicates made more demands on language than nonspeech motor reaction time, whereas the reverse was the case with reflexives for CWS compared to CWNS.

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Children who stutter exchange linguistic accuracy for processing speed in sentence comprehension

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Howell

Schwartz

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Applied Psycholinguistics

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“…The effect of decreasing the speech rate is not desirable for individuals who stutter, since the own disorder, due to the excessive amount of disfluencies, causes a reduction in speech rate (24)(25)(26) or articulatory slowing (27) . A study of children with developmental stuttering, speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, showed that readiness in motor speech programming is slowed in relation to the control group of fluent children (28) .…”

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Efeito da retroalimentação auditiva atrasada na gagueira com e sem alteração do processamento auditivo central

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Cardoso

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RESUMO Objetivo Verificar o efeito da retroalimentação auditiva atrasada na fluência da fala de indivíduos que gaguejam, com e sem alteração do processamento auditivo central. Método Participaram 20 indivíduos com gagueira, de sete a 17 anos, divididos em dois grupos, cada um com 10 indivíduos: Grupo Gagueira com Transtorno do Processamento Auditivo (GGTPA) e Grupo Gagueira (GG) sem alteração de processamento auditivo central. Os procedimentos foram: avaliação da fluência com retroalimentação auditiva habitual (RAH) e atrasada (RAA), e avaliação da gravidade da gagueira e do processamento auditivo central (PAC). O software Fono Tools foi utilizado para provocar o atraso de 100 milissegundos na retroalimentação auditiva. O teste dos Postos Sinalizados de Wilcoxon foi utilizado na análise intragrupos, e o teste de Mann-Whitney, na análise intergrupos. Resultados A RAA ocasionou no GG redução estatisticamente significante: no escore da frequência das disfluências típicas da gagueira na análise do Instrumento de Gravidade da Gagueira, na quantidade de bloqueios e de repetições de palavras monossilábicas, e na frequência de disfluências típicas da gagueira de duração. O atraso na retroalimentação auditiva não provocou efeitos estatisticamente significantes na fluência do GGTPA, grupo dos indivíduos com gagueira com alteração do PAC. Conclusão O efeito da retroalimentação auditiva atrasada na fala de indivíduos com gagueira foi diferente nos indivíduos com e sem alteração do processamento auditivo central, pois houve melhora da fluência apenas nos indivíduos sem alteração do PAC.

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“…Function words, on the other hand, are a small closed class with just a grammatical value. This category includes prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, inflections and interjections (Juste et al, 2012).…”

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Lexical measures for testing progress in Hebrew as Arab students’ L2

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2020

Dil Ve Dilbilimi Çalışmaları Dergisi

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Since Ure (1971) and Halliday (1985), different measures have been proposed in the research literature as a proxy for investigating lexicon advances. They are called lexical richness measures and are an important tool in assessing advance of the lexicon (Johansson, 2009). This article evaluates three lexical richness measures of progress in the acquisition of Hebrew by Arab students in Israel: level of abstractness, lexical diversity, and density lexical. The corpus consisted of sixty essays written in Hebrew by 9th and 11th graders. The quantitative analysis reveals several findings. First, abstractness increases with subjects' age, as expected. The density test, however, did not show the expected increase in density with age. A likely reason for this is relatively high density in younger pupils' essays, indicating lack of cohesion rather than high linguistic competence. The national high school language curriculum for eleventh graders focuses on connectivity, which causes a decrease in density. Third, the diversity test also did not yield statistically significant findings, probably because this test is influenced by text length, which in the ninth grade still does not enable a reliable test. In conclusion, the lexical measures can be divided into two types: basic tests, that can be applied at any level of competence; and advanced tests, which require a high level of competence. Level of abstractness is of the first type: it is effective as a measure of progress in L2 acquisition even in the initial stages of acquisition, while diversity and density require a higher competence level.

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Exchange of disfluency with age from function to content words in Brazilian Portuguese speakers who do and do not stutter

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

Children who stutter exchange linguistic accuracy for processing speed in sentence comprehension

Children who stutter exchange linguistic accuracy for processing speed in sentence comprehension

Efeito da retroalimentação auditiva atrasada na gagueira com e sem alteração do processamento auditivo central

Lexical measures for testing progress in Hebrew as Arab students’ L2

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