Stuttering behavior: A phonetic analysis

Autor: Joseph G. Sheehan
Rok vydání: 1974
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Zdroj: Journal of Communication Disorders. 7:193-212
ISSN: 0021-9924
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9924(74)90031-8
Popis: Phonetic transcriptions were made of 500 stutterings, 25 each from 20 adult stutters. The findings were: 1. 1. Repetition and prolongation were the only behaviors common to all. 2. 2. The average duration of 1.6 sec, with a standard deviation of 3 sec. 3. 3. The mean length of the prolongations was 0.87 sec, with a standard deviation of 0.72 sec. 4. 4. More than 4 out of 5 repetitions—83%—were phoneme and syllable repetitions. 5. 5. Phrase repetition was comparatively rare, comprising only 5% of the repetitions. 6. 6. There was a strong tendency for various stuttering behaviors to be aligned into a definite sequence, or stuttering pattern. 7. 7. Ninety-six percent of the stuttering occured in relation to initial sounds. 8. 8. One-half of the blocks involved some degree of stuttering on the wrong sound. 9. 9. Stutterers frequently continued to stutter on words they had already said. 10. 10. Stutterers described as their “hard sounds” the initial sounds they actually uttered successfully, to the exclusion of the remainder of the word. 11. 11. Stuttering was seen chiefly as a disorder of release , with irrelevancies and crutches employed as instrumental acts to satisfy fear and bring about termination of the block.
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