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M E Wingate

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PubMed1979

The loci of stuttering: grammar or prosody?

Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances. However, data from several sources indicate that meaning and grammatical features are not likely to be the important language variables related to stuttering, but that stuttering occurrence is linked more closely to the prosodic dimension. The published literature in this area reports work done with English-speaking subjects; comparable material from other languages would be of considerable value to our understanding of linguistic determinants in stuttering.

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PubMed1979

The first three words.

The regularly reported influence on stuttering of early sentence position, particularly the first three words, evidently is confounded with the influence of grammatical class, another variable consistently found to correlate with stuttering frequency. Representative samples of English prose are found to contain, in early sentence positions, words of grammatical classes known to be associated with high stuttering frequency. Use of a specially constructed passage, which markedly altered the grammatical class composition of the first three words of sentences, resulted in significant changes in the typical patterns of stuttering frequency associated with word position and grammatical class. The findings lead to an analysis which identifies linguistics stress as the essential feature responsible for the effect on stuttering of both grammatical class and sentence position.

Humans↗
PubMed1977

Criteria for stuttering.

Judges are able to differentiate stuttered from nonstuttered speech samples using written transcriptions. These decisions clearly are associated with the presence of certain types of disfluency which have been identified previously as the essential features of stuttering.

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PubMed1975

Expectancy as basically a short-term process.

Expectancy in stuttering is investigated under conditions that approximate more closely than in previous work the circumstances and mode in which expectancy is purported to operate. The results indicate that the currently accepted explanation of the expectancy phenomenon is inadequate and misleading. An alternative explanation more consistent wwth existent data is offered.

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