How Does Prosodic Prominence Impact Articulatory Movement Parameters and Movement Variability in Adults Who Stutter?

This work demonstrates a complex relationship between degree of prosodic prominence and articulatory movement variability. Based on patterns observed in AWS, but not AWNS, it is plausible that processes involved in suppressing default nuclear accents could act as linguistic stressors on the speech motor systems of AWS. Further research is needed to advance our understanding of the role of prosody within a multifactorial view of stuttering.