Abstract
Stuttering is a disorder of human speech manifest as repetitions, lengthenings, and inappropriate pauses in the generation of consonants, vowels, and words. These repetitions, lengthenings, and pauses give a quality of choppiness to the speech of individuals who stutter and are commonly referred to as dysfluencies. Pauses associated with muscular tension in the lips, face, and jaw are referred to as stuttering blocks.
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Rosenfield, D.B., Nudelman, H.B. (1989). Stuttering. In: Speech and Language. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6774-9_30
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