Analysis of periodic and aperiodic components during fluent and dysfluent phases of child and adult stutterers' speech.
The syllable repetitions of 6 child and 6 adult stutterers were investigated to establish whether dysfluent speech had a higher noise-to-signal ratio than fluent speech and whether this differed between children and adults. As predicted, the stuttered speech had a higher noise level for both age groups. During dysfluencies, the level of the noise components in the children's speech was higher than in the adults.
Howell
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Department of Psychology, University College London, England.
Young
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013342:Stuttering / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology