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Sasisekaran, Jayanthi; Brady, Alison; Stein, Jillian – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2013
Purpose: The present study investigated phonological encoding skills in children who stutter (CWS) and those who do not (CNS). Participants were 9 CWS (M=11.8 years, SD=1.5) and 9 age and sex matched CNS (M=11.8 years, SD=1.5). Method: Participants monitored target phonemes located at syllable onsets and offsets of bisyllabic words. Performance in…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Reaction Time, Phonemes, Investigations
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Smith, Anne; Goffman, Lisa; Sasisekaran, Jayanthi; Weber-Fox, Christine – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2012
Stuttering is a disorder of speech production that typically arises in the preschool years, and many accounts of its onset and development implicate language and motor processes as critical underlying factors. There have, however, been very few studies of speech motor control processes in preschool children who stutter. Hearing novel nonwords and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Impairments, Speech, Stuttering
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Sasisekaran, Jayanthi; De Nil, Luc F.; Smyth, Ron; Johnson, Carla – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2006
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of phonological encoding in the silent speech of persons who stutter (PWS) and persons who do not stutter (PNS). Participants were 10 PWS (M=30.4 years, S.D.=7.8), matched in age, gender, and handedness with 11 PNS (M=30.1 years, S.D.=7.8). Each participant performed five tasks: a…
Descriptors: Phonology, Cognitive Processes, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Stuttering
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Sasisekaran, Jayanthi; De Nil, Luc F. – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2006
The present study investigated phonological encoding skills in persons who stutter (PWS). Participants were 10 PWS (M=31.8 years, S.D.=5.9) matched for age, gender, and handedness with 12 persons who do not stutter (PNS) (M=24.3 years, S.D.=4.3). The groups were compared in a phoneme monitoring task performed during silent picture naming. The…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Phonemes, Phonology, Nouns