Speech disfluencies in bilingual Yiddish-Dutch speaking children

Eggers, Kurt; Eerdenbrugh, Sabine Van; Byrd, Courtney T.

doi:10.1080/02699206.2019.1678670

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“…In other words, using the norm of 3 SLD per 100 words as a clinical marker of stuttering would result in false-positive diagnoses of stuttering in the Finnish language, specifically at early ages among 2-to 4-year olds. This finding adds to similar conclusions of previous studies in another language, i.e., French (e.g., Leclercq et al, 2018) and in bilingual children (Eggers et al, 2019).…”

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Speech disfluencies in typically developing Finnish-speaking children – preliminary results

Jansson-Verkasalo

Silvén

Lehtiö

et al. 2020

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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We investigated the speech disfluencies of 54 typically fluent Finnish-speaking children: 14 children randomly selected from a longitudinal study (age levels 2, 3, and 4 years), and 40 children from a cross-sectional study (age levels 6, 7, 8, and 9 years). Speech samples, collected during a semi-structured conversation, were analysed for disfluencies per 100 words and 100 syllables. No significant within-age effect was found for the total frequency of disfluencies or disfluency types among the 2-to 4-year-olds. Across the 6-to 9-year-olds, between-group differences were found for the total frequency and type of disfluencies. Clinically relevant was that the criterion to distinguish normally fluent children from those who stutter, i.e., <3 stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) per 100 syllables, was applicable in all age groups whereas the criterion <3SLD per 100 words was not. Consequently, these preliminary results suggest that different guidelines are needed for defining normal disfluency from stuttering in different languages.

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Speech disfluencies in typically developing Finnish-speaking children – preliminary results

Jansson-Verkasalo

Silvén

Lehtiö

et al. 2020

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…Mean SLD and OD percentages were calculated based on words as in most previous studies [7,8,13,[37][38][39][40]. Table 3 shows the percentages for each type of disfluency in the sample, the mean number of iterations, the time it took each child to complete the narrative, and the numbers of words and syllables that were produced.…”

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“…Given the significance of these findings, Byrd et al's pilot study was replicated and expanded to other populations with different linguistic dyads. Eggers et al investigated the frequency and type of speech disfluencies produced by 59 bilingual Yiddish-Dutch CWNS, aged between 6.01-7.07 and 9.00-10.04 years [8]. The results showed that 46% of the participants produced more than 3% of SLD in their native Yiddish (L1).…”

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“…The 3% SLD is a clinical threshold and is, until now, widely used in the clinical decision-making process [12], even though this threshold is based on monolingual speech. However, as it is clear from the studies conducted by Byrd et al [7] and Eggers et al [8], bilingual CWNS of the explored language dyad frequently exceed this clinical threshold, with a high proportion of monosyllabic word and sound repetitions. Therefore, it appears that the 3% SLD guideline is inappropriate for bilingual children and may lead to extensive false-positive identification of stuttering.…”

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“…The findings are however quite exploratory given the limited number of SLP participants ( N = 14) and the limited number of rated children ( N = 2). Moreover, the child who does not stutter in the Byrd et al study had a very high proportion of total disfluencies (17%), which is likely to be beyond the typical amount of disfluencies in bilinguals [8], even though bilinguals often cross the monolingual threshold of 3%. The current study has therefore opted to select a broader range of CWNS with a total amount of disfluencies ranging from 5% to 15% and also have variation within the CWS category by selecting a child who stutters with relatively many disfluencies (27%) and one with clearly less disfluencies (12%).…”

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Stuttering Severity Judgments by Speech-Language Pathologists of Bilingual Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Merouwe¹,

Bertram²,

Richa³

et al. 2022

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Introduction: Recent studies conducted with bilingual populations have shown that bilingual children who do not stutter (CWNS) are often less fluent than their monolingual counterparts, which seems to affect the accuracy with which speech-language pathologists (SLPs) identify stuttering in bilinguals. That is, misdiagnosis appears frequently in bilingual children, and is more likely to occur with bilingual CWNS (false positives) than bilingual CWS (false negatives). Methods: The goal of the current study was to gain insight in the extent of this misdiagnosis. Speech samples of 6 Lebanese bilingual CWNS and 2 CWS were rated by Lebanese SLPs in an audio-only and audiovisual presentation mode. SLPs had to identify each child as stuttering or not and subsequently rate on a 6-point scale the stuttering severity for each child. SLPs also provided background information by means of a questionnaire. Results: The results showed that stuttering severity ratings (1) were on average significantly higher for CWS than for CWNS, (2) were for each CWS higher than for all but one of the CWNS, (3) varied significantly among the CWNS but not the CWS, (4) were not affected by the presentation mode, and (5) correlated positively with the percentage of stuttering-like disfluencies (SLD) and the mean number of iterations, but not with the percentage of other disfluencies (OD). Conclusion: Misdiagnosed bilingual CWNS are perceived by the SLPs as having a mild stutter, primarily based on the frequency of their disfluencies, but can be occasionally rated at par with CWS. Further research differentiating the disfluent speech of bilingual children who do and do not stutter is needed to reach a more adequate diagnosis of stuttering.

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Disfluencies as a Window into Pragmatic Skills in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Autistic and Non-Autistic Children

Beradze,

Meir

2024

J Autism Dev Disord

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There is little research on the production of speech disfluencies such as silent pauses, repetitions, self-corrections, and filled pauses (e.g., eh, em) in monolingual autistic children, and there is no data on this crucial part of speech production in bilingual autistic children. This study aims to address this gap by examining disfluency production in bilingual autistic and non-autistic children across two linguistically distinct languages, HL-Russian (the home language) and SL-Hebrew (the societal language). Fifty-one bilingual Russian-Hebrew-speaking autistic and non-autistic children aged 5–9 (autistic: n = 21; non-autistic: n = 30), matched for age and non-verbal intelligence, participated in picture-based story-generation tasks (LITMUS MAIN, Gagarina et al., ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 63:1–36, 2019). Audio recordings of narrative samples were transcribed, coded, and scored for eleven disfluency types using CLAN tools. The non-autistic group produced higher overall disfluency rate than the autistic group. The autistic group exhibited fewer filled and silent pauses than the non-autistic group in HL-Russian. Furthermore, non-autistic children manifested varied distribution of disfluency types across languages, while autistic children displayed more consistent patterns across languages. In summary, we replicated findings from previous research on monolinguals only partly, as no between-group difference in filled pauses was found in SL-Hebrew. Additionally, bilingual autistic children exhibited language-universal patterns of disfluency production, whereas their non-autistic peers displayed language-specific patterns.

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Speech disfluencies in bilingual Yiddish-Dutch speaking children

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Speech disfluencies in typically developing Finnish-speaking children – preliminary results

Speech disfluencies in typically developing Finnish-speaking children – preliminary results

Stuttering Severity Judgments by Speech-Language Pathologists of Bilingual Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Disfluencies as a Window into Pragmatic Skills in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Autistic and Non-Autistic Children

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