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Lexicalization in adults who stutter

D Prins1, V Main, S Wampler

  • 1Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 98105-6246, USA.

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR
|April 1, 1997
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Slow lexical processing may cause speech disruptions in people who stutter. Experiments suggest word retrieval and frequency impact stuttering, potentially affecting fluency during language acquisition.

Area of Science:

  • Speech and Language Pathology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Neuroscience of Language

Background:

  • Recent theories suggest lexical processing deficits contribute to fluency disruptions in individuals who stutter.
  • Understanding the specific mechanisms of lexicalization is crucial for explaining stuttering.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of lexical processing in stuttering through two experiments.
  • To evaluate the impact of specific lexicalization demands on speech response latency in people who stutter and normally fluent individuals.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment I: Compared speech response latency for one-word versus two-word picture naming tasks.
  • Experiment II: Assessed the effects of word frequency and syllable count on naming latency.
  • Participants: 12 adults who stutter and 12 normally fluent adults in each experiment.

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Main Results:

  • In Experiment I, stuttering participants showed significantly longer latencies for verb naming, particularly in two-word responses, suggesting a specific difficulty with verb retrieval.
  • Experiment II revealed that the stuttering group exhibited a greater relative increase in naming latency due to word frequency effects compared to syllable count effects.
  • The findings indicate that processing demands related to lexical selection, especially for verbs and high-frequency words, disproportionately affect individuals who stutter.

Conclusions:

  • Slowed lexical processing, particularly during the initial stages of language acquisition (L1 and early L2), may underlie fluency disruptions in some individuals who stutter.
  • These processing delays can create conditions conducive to stuttering events under specific theoretical circumstances.
  • The results support theories linking lexical processing efficiency to speech fluency in stuttering.