A group of 15 male stutterers read a 1000-word passage. Words spoken disfluently were analyzed for the presence of Brown's four word characteristics. The same pattern of loci of occurrence was observed as was reported by Brown in a similar study in which the analyses were based on stuttering counts rather than on disfluency counts. Several implications of this finding are discussed.
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