The Relation of Bilingualism to Stuttering

Travis, Lee Edward; Johnson, Wendell; Shover, Jayne

doi:10.1044/jshd.0203.185

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“…They reported that stuttering occurred more frequently in African American (AA) than in European American (EA) children. For example, 1.6% AA vs. 1.1% EA (Wallin, 1926); 7.8% AA vs. 4.11% EA (Waddle, 1934); 3.76% AA vs. 1.8% EA (Travis, Johnson, & Shover, 1937); 1.6% AA vs. 1.1% (Carson & Kanter, 1945); 2.8% AA vs. 0.7% EA (Gillespie & Cooper, 1973). The very small amount of quantified information reported from Black Africa hints at higher prevalence in certain tribes.…”

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“…Early on, Travis, Johnson, and Shover (1937) found that among 4,827 school children in East Chicago, Indiana, screened individually by one of the authors through listening to reading and conversational speech, stuttering prevalence was 2.8% among bilingual children compared to 1.8% in monolingual children. The difference was statistically significant at the 0.02 level of confidence.…”

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Epidemiology of stuttering: 21st century advances

Yairi

Ambrose

2013

Journal of Fluency Disorders

412

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Epidemiological advances in stuttering during the current century are reviewed within the perspectives of past knowledge. The review is organized in six sections: (a) onset (b) incidence (c) prevalence (d) developmental paths, (e) genetics and (f) subtypes. It is concluded that: (1) most of the risk for stuttering onset is over by age 5, earlier than has been previously thought, with a male-to-female ratio near onset smaller than what has been thought, (2) there are indications that the lifespan incidence in the general population may be higher than the 5% commonly cited in past work, (3) the average prevalence over the lifespan may be lower than the commonly held 1%, (4) the effects of race, ethnicity, culture, bilingualism, and socioeconomic status on the incidence/prevalence of stuttering remain uncertain, (5) longitudinal, as well as incidence and prevalence studies support high levels of natural recovery from stuttering, (6) advances in biological genetic research have brought within reach the identification of candidate genes that contribute to stuttering in the population at large, (7) subtype-differentiation has attracted growing interest, with most of the accumulated evidence supporting a distinction between persistent and recovered subtypes.

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Section: Prevalencementioning

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Epidemiology of stuttering: 21st century advances

Yairi

Ambrose

2013

Journal of Fluency Disorders

412

262

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“…Travis, Johnson, and Shover (1937) suggest that a direct relationship between bilingualism and stuttering may exist. For 26% of the bilingual stutterers in their study, the age of onset of stuttering coincided with the introduction of a second language.…”

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Patterns of stuttering in a Spanish/English bilingual: A case report

Ardila

Ramos

Barrocas

2010

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Stuttering patterns may differ when comparing two languages. In bilinguals, specific patterns of stuttering in each one of the languages may potentially be found. This study reports on the case of a 27-year-old Spanish/English simultaneous bilingual whose dominant language is English. Speech and language testing was performed in both languages (language repetition, language understanding, vocabulary, reading, verbal fluency, spontaneous speech and conversational speech). Some differences in the stuttering distribution were found: stuttering in adjectives, adverbs and conjunctions occurred at least twice as much in Spanish as in English; stuttering was also more frequent in verbs in Spanish. Some hypotheses are presented to explain the differences in stuttering severity in both languages. It seems that when comparing stuttering in two different languages in the same subject, it is possible to find similarities in the stuttering pattern, suggesting general stuttering laws; but also differences, associated not only with language-specific idiosyncrasies but also with the individual's bilingualism characteristics.

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“…Approximately 1% of the monolingual population stutters. 51 The reported incidence/ prevalence of stuttering in bilingual speakers varies across studies; some report higher rates in bilingual speakers, [60][61][62] whereas others do not. 63 A recent study of 18 bilingual (Spanish-English) typically fluent children between the ages of 5 years, 6 months and 6 years, 7 months found stuttering-like disfluencies occurring at significantly higher rates (3 to 22%) than expected based typical monolingual (English) norms.…”

Section: A Few Words About Stuttering-like Disfluencies In Bilingual mentioning

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Developing and Using Big Data Archives to Quantify Disfluency and Stuttering in Bilingual Children

Brundage

Corcoran

et al. 2016

Semin Speech Lang

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Worldwide, bilingualism is the rule rather than the exception, and yet we have surprisingly little research data on the fluency development of bilingual children, and even less information on their potential risk for stuttering. Many variables influence a bilingual child's language, speech, and fluency development (e.g., amount of exposure to each language); controlling these variables in research studies necessitates large numbers of bilingual participants. The frequency and types of typical disfluencies in the speech of young children are also varied. In addition, stuttering is also variable in its presentation, and when we assess bilingual children for the presence of stuttering we are adding yet another layer of complexity. This article reviews research on typical disfluencies in monolingual and bilingual speakers, and how this information might be useful clinically. We provide examples from our laboratory to illustrate how computerized language analysis (CLAN) can be used over time to track the behaviors of research participants. We also present data on the identification of stuttering in bilingual children. We discuss challenges to studying bilingual speakers and how big data initiatives such as TalkBank address these challenges to increase our understanding of bilingual fluency development.

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The Relation of Bilingualism to Stuttering

Cited by 45 publications

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Epidemiology of stuttering: 21st century advances

Epidemiology of stuttering: 21st century advances

Patterns of stuttering in a Spanish/English bilingual: A case report

Developing and Using Big Data Archives to Quantify Disfluency and Stuttering in Bilingual Children

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