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From: Tracy Butler
Date: 18 Oct 2010
Time: 22:45:40 -0500
Remote Name: 97.83.179.168
How interesting, there are many unanswered questions about bilingual stuttering. I also think of bilingualism as talking to different groups of people. Teenagers talking to their friends versus talking to their parents-it sometimes can be an entire different language! Maybe there is increased stuttering in the second language because of partial knowledge of the language or pressure to be knowledgeable in this second (or multiple) language. The idea of being able to mask the stuttering is interesting. I could see how one could hide stuttering in a L2 because of naturally not knowing everything about the language. With this in mind I guess someone could stutter in one language and not another (to the untrained ear). I also think of actors/actresses that do not stutter when in character and how they can “mask” stuttering.