Gahl Susanne
Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 20;14:1155895. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1155895. eCollection 2023.
Bilingualism has historically been claimed to be a risk factor for developmental stuttering. The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011) ostensibly contains evidence to test that claim.
We analyze data from monolingual and bilingual children in Kindergarten through fifth grade in the ECLS-K:2011.
The prevalence, male/female ratio, and onset and recovery of reported stuttering in the ECLS are inconsistent with widely-accepted clinical reports of stuttering. We argue that the reported figures may be misleading. We discuss some factors that may inflate the reported prevalence, including a lack of awareness of the difference between stuttering vs. normal disfluencies, and the informal usage of the word "stuttering" on the part of teachers and parents to describe typical disfluencies.
长期以来，双语被认为是发展性口吃的一个风险因素。2010 - 2011年幼儿园班级的儿童早期纵向研究（ECLS - K:2011）表面上包含了检验这一说法的证据。
我们分析了ECLS - K:2011中幼儿园至五年级单语和双语儿童的数据。
ECLS中报告的口吃患病率、男女比例以及发病和恢复情况与广泛接受的口吃临床报告不一致。我们认为报告的数据可能具有误导性。我们讨论了一些可能夸大报告患病率的因素，包括对口吃与正常言语不流畅之间差异的认识不足，以及教师和家长用“口吃”一词非正式地描述典型言语不流畅的情况。
