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Vikram N Dayalu1, Joseph Kalinowski, Andrew Stuart
1Multisensory Research and Speech Motor Disorders Laboratory, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, USA.
Abstract:
Previous research has suggested that word meaning can influence the loci and frequency of stuttering moments. Based on this proposition, it was hypothesized that people who stutter will exhibit a larger proportion of stuttering moments on meaningful words when compared to nonmeaningful or nonsense words. In order to test this hypothesis, stuttering frequency was examined among 9 English-speaking adults who stutter as they read a total of 126 words that were either meaningful or nonmeaningful in nature. The results indicated that approximately 117% more stuttering moments were recorded on nonmeaningful words when compared to meaningful words and this difference was statistically significant (p=0.01). These findings challenge the notion that word meaning can be considered as a reliable predictor of stuttering frequency.
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