This study investigated stuttering frequency as a function of grammatical word type (ie,
content and function). Ten adults who stutter participated. Participants recited aloud a list of …

Previous research has suggested that word meaning can influence the loci and frequency of
stuttering moments. Based on this proposition, it was hypothesized that people who stutter …

The correspondence of stuttering and linguistic characteristics of utterances has led to
speculations that a source factor for stutter events is a speaker's inadequate formulation of …

Stuttering on function words was examined in 51 people who stutter. The people who stutter
were subdivided into young (2 to 6 years), middle (6 to 9 years), and older (9 to 12 years) …

The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the relation between utterance
complexity and utterance position and the tendency to stutter on function words in preschool …

Dysfluencies on function words in the speech of people who stutter mainly occur when
function words precede, rather than follow, content words (Au-Yeung, Howell, & Pilgrim …

The main purpose of the present study was to examine whether the developmental change
in loci of disfluency from mainly function words to mainly content words, observed for English …

Recent research into stuttering in English has shown that function word disfluency
decreases with age whereas content words disfluency increases. Also function words that …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine (a) the role of neighborhood density
(number of words that are phonologically similar to a target word) and frequency variables …

Recently, a growing body of research and theory has suggested that linguistic factors such
as phonological, semantic and syntactic encoding play just as much of a role in the …