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Can Stuttering on Content Versus Function Words Predict Stuttering Persistence in Young Children?

Carly Rosvold¹, Nan Bernstein Ratner¹

¹Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park.

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Analyzing stuttering in children reveals that utterance position, not just word type, differentiates persistent stuttering from recovery. Finer linguistic analysis offers better insights into early stuttering development.

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Developmental Psychology
Linguistics

Background:

The traditional view of stuttering distinguishes between function and content words, but this broad classification may obscure crucial differences.
Cross-sectional studies with broad word-class distinctions limit our understanding of early stuttering patterns and recovery.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether finer-grained grammatical categories and utterance position differentiate children who persist in stuttering (CWSP) from those who recover (CWSR).
To explore if alternative measurement definitions provide additional insights beyond the simple function/content word dichotomy in stuttering research.

Main Methods:

Analyzed spontaneous language samples from 57 children (12 CWSP, 45 CWSR) over three years.
Utilized Computerized Language Analysis to examine stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) by lexical class, grammatical category, and utterance position.
Employed statistical analyses including repeated-measures ANOVA, mixed-effects modeling, and Firth logistic regression.

Main Results:

Children stuttered more on function words than content words across all groups and time points.
The combination of grammatical class and utterance position most effectively differentiated between persistent and recovered stuttering.
Utterance-final disfluencies were more strongly linked to persistent stuttering.

Conclusions:

The simple content/function word distinction is insufficient for differentiating stuttering recovery status.
Incorporating utterance position and precise measurement definitions reveals that structural and positional factors within utterances are key to understanding fluency breakdowns.
These findings advocate for moving beyond broad word-class divisions to develop more precise, linguistically informed models of early stuttering and fluency development.