ABSTRACT
Purpose:
to carry out a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the prolongations of adults who stutter and who not stutter.
Methods:
participants were divided into two groups: Research Group (RG, 15 adults who stutter) and Control Group (GC, 15 fluent adults). Procedures were: fluency assessment, Stuttering Severity Instrument and quantitative and qualitative analyzes of the prolongations.
Results:
there was a greater number of non hesitative prolongations in RG, whereas CG showed more hesitative prolongations in relation to the total of disfluencies. Non hesitative prolongations occurred more frequently in the initial and monosyllabic words, and in the medial position of the sentence in RG. Regarding the muscular tension and duration, a difference was observed for the muscular tension in the non hesitative prolongations, with higher mean value for RG.
Conclusion:
non hesitative prolongations occurred more frequently in RG, in initial words, monosyllables, and medial position of the sentence. Qualitatively, the muscular tension was a typical characteristic of non hesitative prolongations in RG. No differences were found for hesitative prolongations between the groups in relation to the frequency of the total of speech, the position of prolongations in the words and in the sentences, and for the qualitative characteristics, regarding to muscular tension and duration.
Keywords:
Speech Language and Hearing Sciences; Speech; Stuttering; Speech Disorders; Evaluation; Adult
