Inspiratory placement of young stuttering and nonstuttering children during spontaneous speech.
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Title
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Inspiratory placement of young stuttering and nonstuttering children during spontaneous speech.
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Identifier
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AAI3047260
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identifier
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3047260
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Creator
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Russo, Arlyne Elizabeth.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Katherine S. Harris
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Date
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2002
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Health Sciences, Speech Pathology
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Abstract
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Previous research suggests that the respiratory behavior of people who stutter is different from that of people who do not stutter. Most of the research in respiratory physiology and activity in both stuttering and nonstuttering individuals has been done with adults. To support the claim that respiratory aberrance is part of the stuttering phenomenon, respiratory planning and execution should be identified as different at the earliest appearance of stuttering. Aberrant respiratory patterns, otherwise, might never be considered apart from the maladaptive complex of behaviors that appears later in the disorder.;The purpose of this dissertation was to compare inspiratory activity in relation to the location of stutters and to grammatical structure in the spontaneous speech of young children. Adults inspire consistently at grammatically appropriate junctures during spontaneous discourse. It was not known: (1) if children who have reached the age of being language users demonstrated the adult behavior, with the same degree of consistency, of placing inspirations at grammatical boundaries; (2) if stuttering and nonstuttering children were similar in their placement of inspirations; and (3) if inspiratory activity occurred as a precursor to nonfluencies, whether or not the inspiration occurred at a linguistic boundary.;Children placed the majority of inspirations at grammatically appropriate boundaries. Stuttering children spoke fewer words and took more breaths than nonstuttering children. Stuttering children also placed more inspirations at non-boundary locations (within clauses and phrases). MlUs and speech and language testing were similar between the groups, as were percentages of appropriate grammatical boundaries generated during the spontaneous speech sample. Stuttering children's reduced verbal output is therefore probably due to high levels of nonfluencies rather than to inherent language disabilities. Grammatical boundaries and inspiratory locations were high probability sites for stuttering; however, inspiration was the better predictor of stuttering location. These findings can be applied to the treatment of stuttering.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
