The Effects of Syntactic Complexity and Sentence Length on the Speech Motor Control of School-Age Children Who Stutter

Conclusions The speech motor systems of school-age CWS appear to be particularly vulnerable to processing demands associated with increased sentence length, as evidenced by increased LAVar. Increasing the length and complexity of the sentence stimuli also resulted in reduced production accuracy and increased stuttering frequency. We discuss these findings within a motor control framework of speech production.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research