From: Florence Myers
Date: 17 Apr 2010
Time: 18:47:18 -0500
Remote Name: 113.76.238.230
Thank you for shedding light on incidence of cluttering with actual numbers, Isabella. I believe, as in regard to China, that we are still at the infancy stage of establishing incidence and prevalence of both stuttering and cluttering (or a combination of the two). Klaas has itemized some reasons for this, such as having a consensus definition or conception of what cluttering (as opposed to stuttering) is. It would be very interesting to couple incidence figures of fluency disorders in China, for example, with the linguistic properties of languages. Chinese is compromised largely of monosyllabic words or characters. We often say that cluttering occcurs in multisyllabic words in English (such as weak syllable deletions or cluster reductions: "tephone" rather than "telephone"). Would the articulatory anomalies of a Chinese-speaking individual comprise of occasional deletions of the monosyllabic characters/morphemes? or distortions of tones or vowels?