Coalson Geoffrey A, Byrd Courtney T
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Louisiana State University, 63 Hatcher Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A1100, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
J Fluency Disord. 2016 Mar;47:56-69. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2015.10.002. Epub 2015 Nov 2.
The purpose of the present study was to analyze phonetic complexity in the speech of children who stutter in a manner distinct from previous research with specific emphasis on three methodological considerations: (1) analysis of the word immediately following the initial word in the utterance; (2) accounting for other additional linguistic and lexical factors; and (3) discrimination of disfluency types produced.
Parent-child conversations were transcribed for 14 children who stutter (mean age=3 years, 7 months; SD=11.20 months) and coded for phonetic complexity using the Word Complexity Measure (WCM). Phonetic complexity of words immediately following the initial fluent or stuttered words of an utterance were included within binomial regression analyses, along with additional linguistic and lexical factors.
Analyses indicate that the phonetic complexity of the second word of an utterance was not a significant contributor to the likelihood of whole- or part-word repetitions on the preceding initial word of the utterance.
Findings support previous data that suggest the phonetic complexity of speech, at least as measured by the WCM, does not distinctly influence stuttered speech in preschool-age children.
本研究的目的是以一种有别于以往研究的方式分析口吃儿童言语中的语音复杂性,特别强调三个方法学考量因素:(1)分析话语中初始单词之后的那个单词;(2)考虑其他额外的语言和词汇因素;(3)区分所产生的不流畅类型。
对14名口吃儿童(平均年龄 = 3岁7个月;标准差 = 11.20个月)的亲子对话进行转录,并使用单词复杂性度量(WCM)对语音复杂性进行编码。话语中初始流畅或口吃单词之后的单词的语音复杂性,连同其他语言和词汇因素一起纳入二项式回归分析。
分析表明,话语中第二个单词的语音复杂性并非话语中前一个初始单词出现全词或部分单词重复可能性的显著影响因素。
研究结果支持先前的数据,即语音的复杂性,至少通过WCM测量,并不会明显影响学龄前儿童的口吃言语。