Syllable- and word-based measures of stuttering in speech samples of Turkish-speaking school-aged children

Bircan B. B., Kara İ., KULAK KAYIKCI M. E.

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, cilt.38, sa.3, ss.185-202, 2024 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 38 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/02699206.2023.2186764
  • Dergi Adı: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, FRANCIS, CINAHL, Communication & Mass Media Index, Communication Abstracts, EBSCO Education Source, EMBASE, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MEDLINE, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.185-202
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Stuttering, utterance position, word position, lexical class, school-aged children
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Linguistic factors influence the likelihood of occurrence of stuttering instances on a certain word within an utterance. However, studies on the relationship between stuttering instances and linguistic factors of Turkish-speaking individuals are scarce. This study aimed to determine the syllable- and word-based measures of stuttering speech samples of Turkish-speaking school-aged children who stutter. Stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs) and lexical categories were identified after transcription of 61 children’s spontaneous speech samples (age range = 6–16). Syllable-, word- and utterance-level measures were employed. Syllable-based and word-based stuttering frequency findings were significantly different (p <.001); SLDs were more likely to occur at the utterance-initial (p <.001) and word-initial (p <.001) positions; content words were more likely to be stuttered and, there was a relation between the occurrence of SLDs and utterance length (p =.001). Since there is great variability between word-based and syllable-based measures, and SLDs tend to occur at word onsets, using word-based measures in Turkish would provide a measure of stuttering frequency that is comparable to the literature. Moreover, findings support that phrases requiring greater demands on utterance planning increase the possibility of occurrence of stuttering instances.