Characteristics of words stuttered

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Re: Stuttering as a language disorder

From: Anelise Bohnen
Date: 05 Oct 2011
Time: 16:59:01 -0500
Remote Name: 187.36.5.153

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Dear Judith and Peter I also agree that stutterings may differ from language to language. There are reports of stuttering in the native language of Brazilian Xingu Indians. But their stuttering characteristics are yet to be studied. And there is one report of stuttering in sign language. It would be a nice epidemiological study to find out if stuttering would have similar characteristics, despite the specificities of each language. For instance: in English and in Brazilian Portuguese stuttering happens 97% of the time on the first syllable of the words. And these two languages are structurally very different. If we think stuttering as a language problem, these basic characteristics would appear at least in most of the western languages. Judith, I did not specifically investigated phonemes, morphemes, semantics, syntax, and prosody. But I found that 48% of stutterings were in monosyllabic words. I investigated these words in terms of age, stressed x non stressed, across time and their morphological classes. I found that in Brazilian Portuguese, children stuttered mainly on conjunctions (80 out of 440 occurrences) and prepositions (68 out of 466 occurrences). Personal pronouns (42 out of 191) and verbs (62 out of 403) were the predominant stressed stuttered monosyllables. Adults did the opposite: prepositions (81 out of 479) and conjunctions (54 out of 572) were the predominant unstressed monosyllables; and verbs (42 out of 296) and personal pronouns (42 out of 347 occurrences) were the predominant stressed stuttered monosyllabic words. I can send to you a better analysis of these results, if you are interested. Thank you both. Anelise


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