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Eichorn, Naomi; Marton, Klara; Schwartz, Richard G.; Melara, Robert D.; Pirutinsky, Steven – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: The present study examined whether engaging working memory in a secondary task benefits speech fluency. Effects of dual-task conditions on speech fluency, rate, and errors were examined with respect to predictions derived from three related theoretical accounts of disfluencies. Method: Nineteen adults who stutter and twenty adults who do…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Speech Skills, Stuttering, Evidence
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Girbau, Dolors; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
We examined the performance of sequential bilingual children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI), who had Spanish as an L1 and English as their L2, on an auditory non-word repetition task using Spanish phonotactic patterns. We also analyzed the accuracy with which this task distinguished these children (according to children's and…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonemes, Mothers, Language Impairments