Language and Fluency Characteristics of Preschoolers' Multiple-Utterance Conversational Turns

This study examined language and fluency characteristics of single-utterance (SU) and multiple-utterance (MU)conversational turns produced by 15 preschoolers who stutter and 15 nonstuttering peers. Results suggest that MU turns are demanding for young children because they evoke relatively long and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of speech, language, and hearing research language, and hearing research, 2003-02, Vol.46 (1), p.178-188
1. Verfasser:	Logan, Kenneth J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Behavior Biological and medical sciences Child Language Child, Preschool Children & youth Communicative disorders Data collection Difficulty Level Discourse Analysis Female Fluency disorders Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Humans Language Acquisition Language development Linguistic Competence Linguistics Listening Comprehension Male Mean Length of Utterance Medical sciences Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology Pragmatics Preschool Children Reproducibility of Results Semiotics Speech Speech Production Measurement Stuttering Utterance length Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs
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Zusammenfassung:	This study examined language and fluency characteristics of single-utterance (SU) and multiple-utterance (MU)conversational turns produced by 15 preschoolers who stutter and 15 nonstuttering peers. Results suggest that MU turns are demanding for young children because they evoke relatively long and complex utterances and that clinicians should consider conversational turn length when assessing and treating this population. (Contains references.) (DB)
ISSN:	1092-4388 1558-9102
DOI:	10.1044/1092-4388(2003/014)