The issue to which this paper is addressed has to do with the careful and appropriate use of
terms. This commentary was precipitated by several articles that have appeared recently in the
Journal of Fluency Disorders, although the issue they epitomize also has found expression over …

To systematically evaluate the task demands of changes in utterance length and complexity,
8 normal and 8 stuttering children, ages 3: 11–6: 4, were administered an elicited imitation
task in which the variables of syntactic complexity (as determined by normative age of …

• Acquired stuttering in the adult is rare and is usually associated with trauma or vascular
disease. A recent patient had adult-onset dysfluency, and, subsequently, signs of
progressive supranuclear palsy developed. A review of cases of extrapyramidal disease …

This article presents a theoretical perspective on stuttering based on numerous findings
regarding speech and nonspeech neuromotor control in individuals who stutter in
combination with recent empirical data and theoretical models from the literature on the …

Previous studies suggest that anatomical anomalies [Foundas, AL, Bollich, AM, Corey, DM,
Hurley, M., & Heilman, KM (2001). Anomalous anatomy of speech-language areas in adults
with persistent developmental stuttering. Neurology, 57, 207–215; Foundas, AL, Corey, DM …

The relationship between speech dysfluency and manual lateralisation was studied in 31
adults with Down's syndrome. Analysis of speech samples from videotapes indicated that
frequency of dysfluency ranged from normal to very severe; 42% of the subjects were …

The Switchboard Corpus comprises telephone conversations between two individuals
regarding a specific topic. Since it is conversational speech, it contains fragments of words,
interruptions, incomplete sentences, fillers and discourse markers which require annotation …

A late onset progressive dysfluency following a right hemisphere stroke occurred in a 62-
year-old male. Dysfluency was characterized by pronounced word and phrase reiterations,
and sound and syllable reiterations to a lesser degree. Spontaneous speech was …

Studies using modern imaging techniques suggest that, in developmental stuttering, there is
dysfunction within the cortical and subcortical areas of the motor control system wider than
that pertaining to speech motor control alone. If this is the case, one might expect motor …

Although speech dysfluencies have been hypothesized to be associated with abnormal
function of dopaminergic system, the effects of dopaminergic medication on speech fluency
in Parkinson's disease (PD) have not been systematically studied. The aim of the present …