Linguistic factors affecting the loci and frequency of stuttering across age groups among Arabic-speaking Jordanians

Abstract EN

Objectives : This study was designed to study the association of stuttering loci and frequency with certain linguistic factors among stuttering Jordanian children and adults.

Method : Seventy four Jordanian persons who stutter, categorized into three age groups, constituted the subjects of the present study.

Speech samples were collected from each subject’s oral reading and conversational speech, and analyzed according to the frequency of stuttering on each of the following linguistic factors : Word length, word grammatical class, word position, sentence position, and syntactical complexity.

Paired t-tests and ANOVA were conducted to determine the significance of each linguistic factor.

Results : There were significant correlations between the stuttering loci and frequency with each of the linguistic factors studied.

Conclusion : The results are in accordance with findings in other languages.

It was found that for our subjects, as it was the case for English, Norwegian, Kannada, German, and Spanish subjects, the stuttering events were strongly associated with word length, word grammatical class, word position, sentence position, and syntactical complexity.