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Annual Review of Linguistics

Volume 10, 2024

Advances in Understanding Stuttering as a Disorder of Language Encoding

  • Nan Bernstein Ratner1 and Shelley B. Brundage2
  • 1Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA; email: [email protected] 2Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
  • Vol. 10:127-143 (Volume publication date January 2024)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on October 10, 2023
  • Copyright © 2024 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information

Abstract

We review accumulating evidence that implicates the language encoding and production system in children and adults who stutter. Stuttering is unique in its onset during the most dynamic stages of language acquisition, after apparently successful mastery of early language skills. We review older theories of stuttering that have given way to an understanding of stuttering's underlying bases in cortical and subcortical networks. Behavioral data suggest strong influences of language encoding demand on the frequency and location of stuttered events; psycholinguistic findings suggest atypical language processing in the absence of overt speech. We discuss the probable neuroanatomical and neurophysiological bases of these findings, with implications for therapeutic intervention.

Keyword(s): developmental disorder—speech or language, linguistics, psycholinguistics, remission—spontaneous, speech disorders, stuttering
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