Oral responses from 16 stutterers to word stimuli counterbalanced according to abstraction level, part of speech, word length, and frequency of occurrence, and presented through the visual modality indicated that long words produced significantly more non-fluencies than short ones; words of infrequent occurrence in language produced significantly more non-fluencies than frequent ones; no significant differences existed among words of high, medium, and low levels of abstraction; no significant difference existed among nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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