Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Summer 1973

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Health Sciences

Committee Chair

Bernard Jackson

Second Committee Member

Roger L. Garrett

Third Committee Member

O. Wensley

Abstract

This study explored the influence of word accent upon the precipitation of audible stutterings in the spontaneous speech of five adult male stutterers. The results indicated that three of the subjects stuttered with significant frequency upon accented words and two of the subjects evidenced a definite tendency to stutter on accented words. It was proposed that accented words may be a locus of stuttering in sentences and phrases of spontaneous speech in addition and perhaps relative to the four loci postulated by earlier research.

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