From planning to articulation in speech production: What differentiates a person who stutters from a person who does not stutter?
Publication year
1996Source
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 39, 3, (1996), pp. 546-564ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Journal title
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Volume
vol. 39
Issue
iss. 3
Page start
p. 546
Page end
p. 564
Abstract
The main purpose of the present study was to differentiate between people who stutter and control speakers regarding their ability to assemble motor plans and to prepare (and execute) muscle commands. Adult males who stutter, matched for age, gender, and educational level with a group of control speakers, were tested on naming words and symbols. In addition, their ability to encode and retrieve memory representations of combinations of a symbol and a word, was tested in a recognition task, using manual reaction times and sensitivity scores, as defined in signal detection theory, as performance measures. Group differences in muscle command preparation were assessed from electromyographic recordings of upper lip and lower lip. Results indicated no interaction between group and word size effects in choice reaction times or a group effect in the ability to recognize previously learned symbol-word combinations. However, they were significantly different in the timing of peak amplitudes in the integrated electromyographic signals of upper lip and lower lip (IEMG peak latency). Findings question the claim that people who stutter have problems in creating abstract motor plans for speech. n addition, it is argued that the group differences in IEMG peak latency that were found in the present study might be better understood in terms of motor control strategies than in terms of motor control deficits.
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