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Re: Phonological processes and stuttering

From: Nan Ratner
Date: 10/15/03
Time: 1:01:28 PM
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203

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I will try taking a stab at this one. There is a high degree of "comorbidity" of articulation disorders and stuttering, which, when combined with the obvious problems in fluently progressing from sound to sound, have led some researchers to speculate that stuttering is a disorder of speech encoding. The levels that have been investigated range from accessing the phonological representations of words, to programming them, to executing them, to even, with the Covert Repair Hypothesis (Postma & Kolk), problems in overactive self-monitoring of the correctness of speech output (I have greatly simplified this). To my knowledge, not much has been investigated in the realm of speech perception in stuttering, although I would be curious to have you enlarge on your question to explain why you think this could be the case.


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