The present study focused on comparison of types and percentage of maze words over total words produced by typically developing monolingual (functionally) Kannada and Kannada-English bilingual children in the age range of 6 to 8 years. The Kannada-English bilingual group obtained higher mean ...
(e.g., Bedore et al., 2006). These disfluencies, also called mazes, disrupt the forward flow of speech with no contribution to the meaning of the message (Bedore et al., 2006, Byrd et al., 2015a, Carias and Ingram, 2006). It has been suggested that speech fluency in bilinguals ...
For the Finnish stimuli, sai is the most frequent item (the past tense of the verb saada, “to get”), suu (“mouth”) is less frequent, and sii (a syllable without its own meaning) is the most infrequent according to the Finnish language bank [106]. The Finnish items were chosen ...