An eyemarking study of anticipation and dysfluency among elementary school stutterers

A list of 144 words was presented to 15 school-age stutterers who were instructed to mark those words on which they would expect to be dysfluent if they were to readthem aloud. Subsequently, a computer-controlled eyemarker recorded the subjects' saccadic movements as they silently read a passag...

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Published in:Journal of fluency disorders 1991-02, Vol.16 (1), p.25-33
Main Authors: Bakker, Klaas, Brutten, Gene J., Janssen, Peggy, Meulen, Sjoeke van der
Format: Article
Language:English
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Biological and medical sciences
Child clinical studies
Language and communication disorders
Medical sciences
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
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Summary:A list of 144 words was presented to 15 school-age stutterers who were instructed to mark those words on which they would expect to be dysfluent if they were to readthem aloud. Subsequently, a computer-controlled eyemarker recorded the subjects' saccadic movements as they silently read a passage made up of these words. Then, they were videotaped as they orally read the passage. The childrens' expectations were not predictive of the words on which stuttering occured. Moreover, during silent reading, the subjects did not fixate more frequently on words subsequently stuttered than on those later spoken fluently. However, the duration of eye fixations during silent reading were longer for words that were subsequently stuttered than they were for those later spoken fluently. The latter finding suggest that school-aged children, like adults, show evidence of word-specific anticipation of dysfluency.
ISSN:0094-730X
1873-801X
DOI:10.1016/0094-730X(91)90033-9