“…Since the early work of Brown in the 1930s numerous studies have replicated his finding that stuttering events occur more often on stressed syllables than on unstressed syllables (e.g., Bergmann, 1986;Hahn, 1942;Klouda & Cooper, 1988;Natke, Grosser, Sandrieser, & Kalveram, 2002;Prins, Hubbard, & Krause, 1991;Wingate, 1984). The investigation of the stress effect has so far only been carried out with adolescents and adults who stutter, that means persons with a long history of stuttering.…”