Choiced Issues of Realisation of Speech Units in Stuttering

Mieczyslaw Checiek

This paper addresses the relationship between disfluent speech and disordered symptoms occurring beyond the language (speech rate, logophobia/anxiety, muscle co-movements) and age of people who stutter. Both quantitative and qualitative differences between three age groups (7-11; 12-16; 17+) are discussed (n=250). The findings suggest that frequencies of occurrence of disfluent speech are similar among the three groups. Blocks are most commonly occurred in initial sound and that stop-explosive consonants and vowels were most frequently blocked. Significant differences have been observed between groups in case of logophobia/anxiety level.