Stuttering Frequency on Meaningful and Nonmeaningful Words in Adults Who Stutter

Dayalu, Vikram N.; Kalinowski, Joseph; Stuart, Andrew

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“…In this study, no significant difference was observed between people who stutter and those who do not in terms of reaction time. Probably, the difference between the two groups in repeating non-words versus the repetition of words was due to differences in the methods used to access, retrieve, and execute words compared with those in the non-words [24]. Moreover, phonological decoding and encoding in non-words were different than words which could affect the severity of speech disfluency in people who stutter, because in non-words, the retrieval of semantic content (word meaning) was deleted in comparison with words, and the output of non-words was focused on phonological encoding [25].…”

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Evaluating the Word/Non-Word Repetition in Adults With Stuttering Based on Stuttering Severity and Length of Words/Non-Words

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Stuttering is a speech disorder examined in many studies on motor speech deficiency in people with stuttering. In the area of language, some studies have also shown that people with stuttering are different from people without stuttering in terms of phonological, lexical, and syntactic processing .In this area, studies on the evaluation of phonological processing in Iranian people with stuttering are a few. One of the tasks for evaluating phonological processing is anon-word repetition task. This study aimed to examine the ability of adults who stutter to repeat words/non-words compared with those with fluent speech. Materials and Methods:This research is across-sectional descriptive-correlational study. The participants included 20 adults with stuttering (18-30 years old) selected by the convenience sampling method from those referred to speech therapy centers and hospitals in Tehran Province. Besides, 30 age-matched peers participated in this study as the control. The phonological processing of participants was examined in terms of reaction time and word/nonword repetition accuracy. To detect stuttering, we asked the subjects to read a text in Persian, and its severity was detected by stuttering severity instrument-3. For measuring reaction time, DMDX software was used, and data were analyzed in SPSS V. 21.Results: Mann-Whitney test results showed a significant difference between adults with and without stuttering in terms of repetition accuracy (P<0.05), but no significant difference was found between them in terms of reaction time (P>0.05). Conclusion:Phonological processing in adults who stutter is different compared with those with speech fluency, but this difference is non-significant. Results indicated slow phonological processing in an adult with stuttering. This can raise the awareness of therapists during the evaluation and treatment of stutterers in terms of phonological processing and phonological working memory.

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Evaluating the Word/Non-Word Repetition in Adults With Stuttering Based on Stuttering Severity and Length of Words/Non-Words

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“…For this reason, it is of great interest to investigate linguistic factors that may affect stuttering including word types, meaning, syntactic structure, syntactic complexity, length, syllabic structure and word loading data which have been examined in various studies. [11][12][13][14] Dworzynski et al 15 Stated that the occurrence of stuttering in conversation does not happen accidentally. 15 This has called for research addressing stuttering based on linguistic features.…”

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between stuttering severity and inflectional morphemes stuttered in 15-35 year-old stutterers with mild to moderate severity.Method of Analysis: 20 stutters were randomly recruited (10 with a mild stuttering problem and 10 with a moderate one). Participants' speech was recorded during reading a text (about 400 syllables) in a natural setting for 3-5 minutes. Then the speech was analyzed and types of inflectional morphemes stuttered were identified. Stuttering severity was also measured utilizing the SSI-4 scale.Findings: Data analyses indicated that there is a direct, significant and linear relationship between moderate stuttering severity and inflectional morphemes in particular types of verb prefixes (r= .671, p=.024), and there is a direct and linear relationship between mild stuttering severity and inflectional morphemes in type of verb prefixes (r=.249, p=.008), whereas this relationship was not statistically meaningful (p<.05). There is no meaningful statistical relationship between mild to moderate stuttering severity and inflectional morphemes (i.e., plural, indefinite, comparative and superlative, transient maker and identity verbs) (p<.05). Conclusion:Results demonstrated a reduction in stuttering severity in inflectional morphemes (as a result of the low length, meaning and complexity of words) and no meaningful statistical relationship between stuttering severity (mild and moderate) and inflectional morphemes.

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“…Recent researches have indicated the relationship among the linguistic factors such as syntactic construct, syntactic complication, the position and type of word, the length of word, syllable structure and the informative load of the word with the stuttering (5)(6)(7)(8). Syllable structure of the word has a specific importance among the other linguistic factors, regarding the presence or absence of consonant cluster, because syllable structure is one of the most effective factors in phonological encoding, which can have an influence on the frequency of dis-fluency occurrences among people with stuttering.…”

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The Effect of Syllable Structure on the Frequency of Disfluencies in Adults With Stuttering

Masumi

Kashani

Hassanpour

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Middle East J Rehabil Health

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Background: Stuttering is one of the most prevalent speech and language disorders. Symptomatology of stuttering has been surveyed from biological, developmental, environmental, emotional, learning and linguistic viewpoints. Literature shows that syllable structure as a linguistic feature, may influence the frequency of disfluencies.Objectives: This study aimed to determine the effect of syllable structure on the frequency of disfluencies in adults with stuttering. Patients and Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was performed on 16 adults (14 males and 2 females) who stutter with the mean age of 24.56 years. The frequency of disfluencies was evaluated by asking the subjects to read two lists, one list contained 60 words and another one consisted of 60 nonwords. The words and nonwords were selected based on simple and difficult syllable structures. The data were statistically analyzed through paired t-test using the SPSS software. Results:The results of this study showed a significant difference between the frequency of disfluencies between the simple syllable structures and difficult syllable structures in nonword reading tasks (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the frequency of disfluencies between the simple syllable structures and difficult syllable structures in word reading tasks (P > 0.05). Conclusions:The findings of this study indicate that the frequency of disfluencies was increased in difficult syllable structures in comparison to simple syllable structures. According to the results, it seems that certain linguistic features, such as syllable structure can affect speech-motor output in people who stutter through affecting phonological encoding.

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Stuttering Frequency on Meaningful and Nonmeaningful Words in Adults Who Stutter

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Evaluating the Word/Non-Word Repetition in Adults With Stuttering Based on Stuttering Severity and Length of Words/Non-Words

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