Speech Motor Dynamics in Stuttering

One Historical Review.- 1 Laryngeal and articulatory behavior in stuttering: past and future.- Two Models in Speech Motor Production.- Overview.- 2 Action theory as a description of the speech process.- 3 Programming of speech and nonspeech motor activity.- 4 Multilevel control model for speech motor activity.- Three Methods in Research in Speech Motor Production.- Overview.- 5 Methodological aspects of simultaneous measurements: limitations and possibilities.- 6 Acoustical analysis and physiological parameters.- 7 Studying young stutterers' speech productions: a procedural challenge.- 8 Measuring stutterers' dynamical vocal tract characteristics by X-ray microbeam pallet tracking.- 9 Brain electrical activity mapping: applications to vocal motor control disorders.- 10 Dynamic characteristics of vocal frequency tracking in stutterers and nonstutterers.- Four Research on Coordination and Timing of Speech Motor Processes.- Overview.- 11 Labial and laryngeal reaction times of stutterers and nonstutterers.- 12 Programming and initiation of speech utterances in stuttering.- 13 Coordination of prephonatory events in mild and severe stutterers.- 14 Coordination of laryngeal and supralaryngeal behavior in stutterers.- 15 Subgrouping young stutterers: a physiological perspective.- 16 Aerodynamic functions in fluent speech utterances of stutterers and nonstutterers in different speech conditions.- 17 A speech motor control perspective on stuttering: preliminary observations.- 18 Labial coarticulation in stutterers and normal speakers: a pilot study.- 19 Acoustic and electrophysiologic correlates of stuttering and early developmental reactions.- Five Acoustic Analysis of Speech Production.- Overview.- 20 Perceptual and acoustic evaluation of stuttering therapy.- 21 Voice onsetabruptness in stutterers before and after therapy.- 22 A comprehensive computer program for facilitating fluency in stutterers.- 23 Articulatory rate, stuttering and speech motor control.- 24 Speech rate and syllable durations in stutterers and nonstutterers.- 25 The effects of fluency-inducing conditions on the variability in the duration of laryngeal movements during stutterers' fluent speech.- 26 Duration variations in the fluent speech of stutterers and nonstutterers.- 27 A model of stuttering and the production of speech under delayed auditory feedback conditions.- 28 Factors affecting fluency in stutterers when speaking under altered auditory feedback.- 29 Acoustic analysis of repetitions in stutterers' speech.- 30 Coarticulation and stuttering: an acoustic and electropalatographic study.- 31 Stuttering as a prosodic disturbance: a link between speech execution and emotional processes.- Author Index.