The effects of syntactic complexity on the occurrence of disfluencies in 5 year old nonstutterers

Gordon, Pearl A.; Luper, Harold L.; Peterson, H. A.

doi:10.1016/0094-730x(86)90029-x

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“…Likewise, young children have been shown to exhibit increases in speech disfluency (stuttering-like and other disfluencies) when attempting to produce difficult or newly acquired morphosyntactic structures (e.g., Colburn & Mysak, 1982a, 1982bGordon, Luper, & Peterson, 1986;Ratner, 1997;Ratner & Sih, 1987;Wijnen, 1990). Findings of a consistent relationship between speech disfluencies, utterance length, and syntactic complexity seemingly suggest that young CWS may experience some degree of difficulty quickly and/or efficiently formulating morphosyntactic structures.…”

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Sentence-Structure Priming in Young Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Anderson

Conture

2004

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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The purpose of this study was to use an age-appropriate version of the sentence-structure priming paradigm (e.g., K. Bock, 1990;K. Bock, H. Loebell, & R. Morey, 1992) to assess experimentally the syntactic processing abilities of children who stutter (CWS) and children who do not stutter (CWNS). Participants were 16 CWS and 16 CWNS between the ages of 3;3 (years; months) and 5;5, matched for gender and age (±4 months). All participants had speech, language, and hearing development within normal limits, with the exception of stuttering for CWS. All children participated in a sentence-structure priming task where they were shown and asked to describe, on a computer screen, black-on-white line drawings of children, adults, and animals performing activities that could be appropriately described using simple active affirmative declarative (SAAD) sentences (e.g., "The man is walking the dog"). Speech reaction time (SRT) was measured from the onset of the picture presentation to the onset of the child's verbal response in the absence and presence of priming sentences, counterbalanced for order. Main findings indicated that CWS exhibited slower SRTs in the absence of priming sentences and greater syntactic-priming effects than CWNS. These findings suggest that CWS may have difficulty rapidly, efficiently planning and/or retrieving sentencestructure units, difficulties that may contribute to their inabilities to establish fluent speech-language production.

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Sentence-Structure Priming in Young Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Anderson

Conture

2004

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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“…We assume a systematicity in the occurrence of unintelligible words in samples of children's conversational speech that might be traced to contextual and linguistic variables. Other investigators have identified contextual and linguistic regularities associated with the occurrence of dysfluent words in transcripts of normal speakers (Gordon, Luper, & Peterson, 1986) and individuals with fluency disorders (Jayaram, 1984;Wall, Starkweather, & Cairns, 1981). Several variables, such as the sequential order of a word in an utterance (Wingate, 1976) and utterance length and syntactic complexity (Gaines, Runyan, & Meyers, 1991), apparently influence the occurrence of dysfluent moments.…”

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Contextual and Linguistic Correlates of Intelligibility in Children With Developmental Phonological Disorders

Weston

Shriberg

1992

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Listeners' glosses of children's intended words provided data for two studies of the potential influence of selected contextual and linguistic variables on word intelligibility. Several regularities associated with the occurrence of unintelligible words were identified. In Study I, intelligibility outcomes were associated with utterance length and fluency, word position, intelligibility of adjacent words, phonological complexity, and grammatical form. In Study II, intelligibility outcomes were associated with phonological complexity, syllabic structure, and grammatical form. Discussion considers the implications of these and other regularities associated with the occurrence of unintelligible words for a comprehensive perspective on the utterance-to-utterance intelligibility deficits of children with phonological disorders of unknown origin.

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“…They found that stuttering children differed from nonstuttering children on the spontaneous speech task but not on the sentence imitation task. This pattern is not unique to stuttering children; spontaneous speech is associated with more disfluencies in nonstuttering children as well (e.g., Gordon, Luper, & Peterson, 1986). For instance, Gordon and Luper (1989) gave 3-, 5-, and 7-year-old nonstuttering children a modeling task, in which they heard a model sentence and had to produce another sentence using the same word order, and an imitation task, in which they had only to repeat a sentence provided by the experimenter.…”

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Stuttering, language, and cognition: A review and a model of stuttering as suprasegmental sentence plan alignment (SPA).

Karniol¹

1995

Psychological Bulletin

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The effects of syntactic complexity on the occurrence of disfluencies in 5 year old nonstutterers

Cited by 44 publications

References 5 publications

Sentence-Structure Priming in Young Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Sentence-Structure Priming in Young Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Contextual and Linguistic Correlates of Intelligibility in Children With Developmental Phonological Disorders

Stuttering, language, and cognition: A review and a model of stuttering as suprasegmental sentence plan alignment (SPA).

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