Speech & Language Therapy, Likya Center for Speech and Language, Antalya, Turkey.
Speech and Language Therapy Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey.
Clin Linguist Phon. 2024 Mar 3;38(3):185-202. doi: 10.1080/02699206.2023.2186764. Epub 2023 Mar 10.
Linguistic factors influence the likelihood of occurrence of stuttering instances on a certain word within an utterance. However, studies on the relationship between stuttering instances and linguistic factors of Turkish-speaking individuals are scarce. This study aimed to determine the syllable- and word-based measures of stuttering speech samples of Turkish-speaking school-aged children who stutter. Stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) and lexical categories were identified after transcription of 61 children's spontaneous speech samples (age range = 6-16). Syllable-, word- and utterance-level measures were employed. Syllable-based and word-based stuttering frequency findings were significantly different ( < .001); SLDs were more likely to occur at the utterance-initial ( < .001) and word-initial ( < .001) positions; content words were more likely to be stuttered and, there was a relation between the occurrence of SLDs and utterance length ( = .001). Since there is great variability between word-based and syllable-based measures, and SLDs tend to occur at word onsets, using word-based measures in Turkish would provide a measure of stuttering frequency that is comparable to the literature. Moreover, findings support that phrases requiring greater demands on utterance planning increase the possibility of occurrence of stuttering instances.
语言因素会影响一个人在特定词语的发音中出现口吃的可能性。然而，关于土耳其语使用者的口吃与语言因素之间的关系的研究却很少。本研究旨在确定土耳其语儿童口吃者的言语样本的音节和单词层面的口吃测量。在转录了 61 名儿童的自然言语样本（年龄范围为 6-16 岁）后，识别出了口吃样不流畅（SLD）和词汇类别。采用了音节级、单词级和语句级的测量方法。音节级和单词级的口吃频率发现有显著差异（<0.001）；SLD 更有可能出现在语句起始（<0.001）和单词起始（<0.001）位置；内容词更有可能被口吃，并且 SLD 的发生与语句长度之间存在关系（=0.001）。由于基于单词的和基于音节的测量之间存在很大的可变性，并且 SLD 倾向于出现在单词的开头，因此在土耳其语中使用基于单词的测量方法可以提供与文献相媲美的口吃频率测量。此外，研究结果支持这样的观点，即需要更大的语句规划要求的短语增加了口吃出现的可能性。
