Abstract
Monologue samples of 15 adult stuttering subjects were analyzed to determine the percentage of words they chose that began with each phoneme. The distribution of initial sounds of words that stuttering subjects selected when formulating speech was compared with data gathered from 40 nonstuttering adults. A profile was constructed of standard Z scores, which permitted observation of an individual subject's deviation from the control group. Profiles of 10 of the 13 stuttering subjects who reported that they avoided words showed evidence of probable sound-based word avoidance at both Z = -1.00 and -1.50 reference points. Sounds that subjects reported they were most likely to avoid did not appear highly related to the sounds they seemed to avoid. This approach may have promise as a means of measuring sound-based word avoidance.
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