Throneburg R N, Yairi E, Paden E P
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
J Speech Hear Res. 1994 Jun;37(3):504-9. doi: 10.1044/jshr.3703.504.
People who stutter, especially children, have often been reported to exhibit a wide range of concomitant communication problems including articulation and phonologic deficiencies. This study investigated the relation between the phonologic difficulty of words and the point at which stuttering-like disfluencies occurred in the speech of preschool children identified as having a stuttering problem (n = 24). The children were divided into subgroups according to stuttering severity and phonologic ability. A spontaneous speech sample of approximately 1,000 words was tape-recorded from each child, and perceived disfluencies were identified. The phonologic difficulty of each word on which there was a stuttering-like disfluency and of each fluent word immediately following such a disfluency was categorized. The proportion of words in each child's speech sample that contained each category of phonologic difficulty was determined. The data showed that the proportion of disfluent and immediately following words in each type of phonologic difficulty closely resembled the proportion of words in the speech sample of the same type of difficulty. There were no significant differences between the subgroups of stutterers. We concluded, therefore, that the phonologic difficulty of the disfluent word, and the fluent word following it, did not contribute to fluency breakdown regardless of the children's stuttering severity or phonologic ability.
据报道，口吃者，尤其是儿童，常常表现出一系列伴随的沟通问题，包括发音和语音缺陷。本研究调查了被确定有口吃问题的学龄前儿童（n = 24）言语中单词的语音难度与类似口吃的不流畅现象出现点之间的关系。根据口吃严重程度和语音能力将儿童分为亚组。从每个儿童那里录制了大约1000个单词的自发言语样本，并识别出可感知的不流畅现象。对每个出现类似口吃不流畅现象的单词以及紧随该不流畅现象之后的每个流畅单词的语音难度进行分类。确定了每个儿童言语样本中包含每种语音难度类别的单词比例。数据表明，每种语音难度类型中不流畅单词及紧随其后单词的比例与相同难度类型言语样本中的单词比例非常相似。口吃者亚组之间没有显著差异。因此，我们得出结论，无论儿童的口吃严重程度或语音能力如何，不流畅单词及其后的流畅单词的语音难度都不会导致流畅性中断。
