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Shelley B Brundage¹, Tayler Corcoran¹, Catherine Wu¹

¹Department of Speech and Hearing Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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Bilingual children’s fluency development and stuttering risk require more research. This study reviews typical disfluencies in bilingual speakers and uses computerized language analysis (CLAN) to track speech behaviors.

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Area of Science:

Speech-Language Pathology
Developmental Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

Bilingualism is common globally, yet research on bilingual children's fluency development and stuttering risk is limited.
Numerous variables affect bilingual children's language, speech, and fluency, complicating research design and necessitating large participant groups.
Typical disfluencies in young children vary, and stuttering presentation is also inconsistent, adding complexity to assessments of bilingual children.

Purpose of the Study:

To review existing research on typical disfluencies in both monolingual and bilingual speakers.
To explore the clinical utility of understanding disfluency patterns in bilingual children.
To present methods for tracking bilingual children's speech behaviors and identifying stuttering.

Main Methods:

Literature review of disfluencies in monolingual and bilingual speakers.
Utilizing computerized language analysis (CLAN) for longitudinal tracking of speech behaviors.
Analysis of data on stuttering identification in bilingual children.

Main Results:

The article reviews research on typical disfluencies in monolingual and bilingual children.
Computerized language analysis (CLAN) can track speech behaviors over time.
Data on stuttering identification in bilingual children is presented, highlighting challenges.

Conclusions:

More research is needed on bilingual children's fluency development and stuttering.
Computerized language analysis and big data initiatives like TalkBank are crucial for understanding bilingual speech.
Clinical assessment of stuttering in bilingual children requires careful consideration of linguistic and developmental factors.