A Developmental Study of Normal Fluency and Language

Nancy Hall, Kristen Higgens, Stacy Wagovich, Laurie Farkas, Elise Cote, Laura Russell and Jillian Ward

The present study examines the interactions of language and fluency in the spontaneous language of 30 typical children in Brown’s MLU stages Late I to Post V. The presence of speech disruptions is analyzed relative to a variety of linguistic variables, including syntactic, lexical, and phonologic. Results are discussed in terms of children’s mastery of fluency in the context of developing language.