Multilingual Aspects of Fluency Disorders / / ed. by Peter Howell, John Van Borsel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Borsel, John Van,; Brundage, Shelley B.,; Byrd, Courtney T.,; Carlo, Edna J.,; Dworzynski, Katharina,; Houwer, Annick De,; Howell, Peter,; Karimi, Hamid,; Klein, Denise,; Lim, Valerie P.C.,; Lincoln, Michelle,; Mennen, Ineke,; Nilipour, Reza,; Pereira, Mônica de Britto,; Ratner, Nan Bernstein,; Roberts, Patricia M.,; Rusbridge, Sarah,; Shenker, Rosalee C.,; Simon, Anne-Marie,; Tsai, Pei-Tzu,; Ujihira, Akira,; Watkins, Kate E.,; Watson, Jennifer B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Howell, Peter,; Van Borsel, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Communication Disorders Across Languages
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

This book contains contributions by scholars working on diverse aspects of speech who bring their findings to bear on the practical issue of how to treat stuttering in different language groups and in multilingual speakers. The book considers classic issues in speech production research, as well as whether regions of the brain that are affected in people who stutter relate to areas used intensively in fluent bilingual speech. It then reviews how formal language properties and differential use of parts of language affect stuttering in English, and then compares these findings to work on stuttering in a variety of languages. Finally, the book addresses methodological issues to do with studies on bilingualism and stuttering; and discusses which approach is appropriate in the treatment of bilingual and multilingual people who stutter.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1: Procedures, Methods and Findings for Language and Its Disorders -- Chapter 1: The Speech of Fluent Child Bilinguals -- Chapter 2 Speech Production in Simultaneous and Sequential Bilinguals -- Chapter 3: Genetics and Language -- Chapter 4: Brain Structure and Function in Developmental Stuttering and Bilingualism -- Part 2: Monolingual Language Diversity and Stuttering -- Chapter 5: The Speech and Language Characteristics of Developmental Stuttering in English Speakers -- Chapter 6 Stuttering in Japanese -- Chapter 7: Disfluent Speech Characteristics of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children -- Chapter 8: Characteristics of Developmental Stuttering in Iran -- Chapter 9: Stuttering Research in Brazil: An Overview -- Chapter 10: A Survey on Traditional Treatment Practices for Stuttering in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Part 3: Bilingual Language Diversity, Stuttering and Its Treatment -- Chapter 11: Review of Research on the Relationship between Bilingualism and Stuttering -- Chapter 12: Stuttering in English-Mandarin Bilinguals in Singapore -- Chapter 13: Linguistic Analysis of Stuttering in Bilinguals: Methodological Challenges and Solutions -- Chapter 14: Treating Bilingual Stuttering in Early Childhood: Clinical Updates and Applications -- Chapter 15: Methodology Matters -- Part 4: Conclusions -- Chapter 16: Fluency Disorders and Language Diversity: Lessons Learned and Future Directions -- Index