The influence of phonetic complexity on stuttered speech

The primary purpose of this study was to re-examine the influence of phonetic complexity on stuttering in young children through the use of the Word Complexity Measure (WCM). Parent-child conversations were transcribed for 14 children who stutter (mean age = 3 years, 7 months; SD = 11.20 months). Le...

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Published in:Clinical linguistics & phonetics 2012-07, Vol.26 (7), p.646-659
Main Authors: Coalson, Geoffrey A., Byrd, Courtney T., Davis, Barbara L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Audiometry, Pure-Tone
Child, Preschool
children
Dependent Variables
Disabilities
Early Childhood Education
Female
Humans
Language Tests
Linguistic effects of deficiencies
Linguistics
Male
Parent Child Relationship
Parents
Pathology of language
Phonemes
Phonetics
Predictive Value of Tests
Predictor Variables
Preschool Children
Preschool Education
Probability
Regression (Statistics)
Scores
Semantics
Speech - physiology
Speech Production Measurement
spontaneous speech
Stuttering
Stuttering - physiopathology
Syllables
Vocabulary
Word Complexity Measure
Young Children
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Summary:The primary purpose of this study was to re-examine the influence of phonetic complexity on stuttering in young children through the use of the Word Complexity Measure (WCM). Parent-child conversations were transcribed for 14 children who stutter (mean age = 3 years, 7 months; SD = 11.20 months). Lexical and linguistic factors were accounted for during the analysis. Results indicate that phonetic complexity, as measured by WCM, did not exhibit a significant influence on the likelihood of stuttering. Findings support previous data that suggest stuttering in preschool-age children does not appear significantly related to phonetic complexity of the production.
ISSN:0269-9206
1464-5076
DOI:10.3109/02699206.2012.682696