GRAMMATICAL FACTORS IN STUTTERING.

Abstract

An analysis of the digribution of stuttering on grammatical puts of speech, content and function words was undertaken, both in monolingual and. bilingual stutterers. The two languages analyzed were English and Kannada (a Dravidian language). Both oral reacting and spontaneous speech were analyzed. Results indicated that there was more stuttering on content words than on function words ; more stuttering occurred on nouns, adjectives and verbs in both the languages ; the difference between monolingual and bilingu21 stutterers and between the two languages of a bilingu2I stuverer was only quantitativs indicating that stuttering was not language related. In general, the results support Bloodstein's anticipatory struggle hypothesis in stuttering.