Phonetic complexity and stuttering in Turkish-speaking children who stutter.

The relationship between stuttering and phonetic complexity for words spoken by Turkish children who stutter was investigated. The research questions were: (1) Do Turkish-speaking children stutter more on unbound content words than on unbound function words? (2) Do Turkish-speaking children stutter...

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Publicado en:Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 35; no. 10; pp. 996 - 1010
Autores principales: Aydin Uysal, Ayse, Fidan, Dilek, Al-Tamimi, Feda Yousef, Howell, Peter
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2021
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Sumario:The relationship between stuttering and phonetic complexity for words spoken by Turkish children who stutter was investigated. The research questions were: (1) Do Turkish-speaking children stutter more on unbound content words than on unbound function words? (2) Do Turkish-speaking children stutter more on words with higher phonetic complexity scores? Twenty-one monolingual children aged 6–11 years who had a clinical diagnosis of stuttering participated. Speech samples were transcribed and lexical categories determined. Phonetic complexity was assessed by an adaptation of Index of Phonetic Complexity (IPC) for Turkish. Results revealed that the mean rank of unbound content words differed significantly from the mean rank of unbound function words and that stuttering frequency for unbound content words was significantly higher than for unbound function words.