Effects of length, complexity, and grammatical correctness on stuttering in Spanish-speaking preschool children
| Autor: | Jennifer B. Watson, Edna J. Carlo, Courtney T. Byrd |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Male
Linguistics and Language Correctness Stuttering media_common.quotation_subject Spanish speaking Speech and Hearing Predictive Value of Tests Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans media_common Language Language Tests Grammar Context effect Syntactic complexity Reproducibility of Results Linguistics Logistic Models Otorhinolaryngology Child Preschool Female medicine.symptom Psychology Mean length of utterance Utterance Child Language |
| Zdroj: | American journal of speech-language pathology. 20(3) |
| ISSN: | 1558-9110 |
| Popis: | Purpose To explore the effects of utterance length, syntactic complexity, and grammatical correctness on stuttering in the spontaneous speech of young, monolingual Spanish-speaking children. Method Spontaneous speech samples of 11 monolingual Spanish-speaking children who stuttered, ages 35 to 70 months, were examined. Mean number of syllables, total number of clauses, utterance complexity (i.e., containing no clauses, simple clauses, or subordinate and/or conjoined clauses), and grammatical correctness (i.e., the presence or absence of morphological and syntactical errors) in stuttered and fluent utterances were compared. Results Findings revealed that stuttered utterances in Spanish tended to be longer and more often grammatically incorrect, and contain more clauses, including more subordinate and/or conjoined clauses. However, when controlling for the interrelatedness of syllable number and clause number and complexity, only utterance length and grammatical incorrectness were significant predictors of stuttering in the spontaneous speech of these Spanish-speaking children. Use of complex utterances did not appear to contribute to the prediction of stuttering when controlling for utterance length. Conclusions Results from the present study were consistent with many earlier reports of English-speaking children. Both length and grammatical factors appear to affect stuttering in Spanish-speaking children. Grammatical errors, however, served as the greatest predictor of stuttering. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|