Phonetic complexity of words immediately following utterance-initial productions in children who stutter.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of the present study was to analyze phonetic complexity in the speech of children who stutter in a manner distinct from previous research with specific emphasis on three methodological considerations: (1) analysis of the word immediately following the initial word in the utterance; (2) accounting for other additional linguistic and lexical factors; and (3) discrimination of disfluency types produced.

Methods

Parent-child conversations were transcribed for 14 children who stutter (mean age=3 years, 7 months; SD=11.20 months) and coded for phonetic complexity using the Word Complexity Measure (WCM). Phonetic complexity of words immediately following the initial fluent or stuttered words of an utterance were included within binomial regression analyses, alon

SUBMITTER: Coalson GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4762712 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature