Robb Michael P, Sargent Ainsley, O'Beirne Greg A
Department of Communication Disorders, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Logoped Phoniatr Vocol. 2009;34(1):36-42. doi: 10.1080/14015430902748519.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The purpose of this study was to examine characteristics of disfluency clusters in adults who stutter (AWS) and to compare these characteristics to those previously reported for children who stutter (CWS).
The spontaneous speech of ten AWS was sampled and organized according to utterance length in syllables. The overall number and type of disfluency clusters occurring in each sample were determined.
Findings indicated that utterances containing disfluency clusters were significantly longer than fluent utterances, and the occurrence of disfluency clusters was correlated with overall percentage of disfluency.
The results obtained in the present study for AWS tend to parallel those found for CWS and serve to validate their occurrence as a feature of the disorder of stuttering.
背景/目的:本研究旨在探讨成年口吃者(AWS)中不流畅群集的特征,并将这些特征与先前报道的儿童口吃者(CWS)的特征进行比较。
抽取了10名成年口吃者的自然言语,并根据音节的话语长度进行整理。确定每个样本中出现的不流畅群集的总数和类型。
研究结果表明,包含不流畅群集的话语明显长于流畅话语,并且不流畅群集的出现与不流畅的总体百分比相关。
本研究中成年口吃者获得的结果倾向于与儿童口吃者的结果相似,并有助于证实它们作为口吃障碍的一个特征的存在。