Abstract
Ten male and ten female children provided spontaneous language samples and participated in modeling procedures employed to evoke four sets of utterances representing two levels of utterance length and two levels of linguistic complexity. Analysis suggested significantly greater rates for overall disfluencies and “stutterings” (part-word repetitions, word repetitions, disrhythmic phonations, and tense pauses) occured in those modeling tasks that evoked linguistically more complex utterances. However, sex and length of utterance appeared to be related to increased overall disfluency rates as well. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed.
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