Post date: Oct 14, 2009 2:31:02 PM
In this study we examined segmentation and rhyme abilities in 9 children who stutter (CWS) and 9 children who do not stutter (CNS). Participants were compared in performances in phoneme, rhyme, and tone (neutral) monitoring tasks. Results revealed comparable performance between groups in the three monitoring tasks. The CWS showed a trend for slower monitoring of consonant clusters compared to singletons in the phoneme monitoring task. Findings shed light on the role of phonological encoding processes in stuttering.