Characteristics of words stuttered

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Re: what words were most chronic?

From: Anelise Bohnen
Date: 14 Oct 2011
Time: 16:23:10 -0500
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Thank you, Tim. I did not analyze the morphological classes of all the 1326 stuttered word. But, once 48% of stuttered words were monosyllables, I did analyze their morphological classes (I found this was a very striking amount of stutterings!) In Brazilian Portuguese, the predominant unstressed monosyllables children stuttered on were mainly conjunctions (80 stutterings out of 440 occurrences of the same word within the 12000 spoken words) 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. We often see that stutterings are more frequent on function than on content words. It also seems that it does not matter if the words are produced by adults or children, males or females across time. I found that Brazilian children produced a lot less prolongations than Zebrowski has found in her researches, for instance. But this is another discussion, because it involves typology. However, function and content words seem to be a more constant characteristic when we compare stuttering in different languages. Thank you for your remarks! Anelise


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