Inter-judge (n = 5) agreement for identifying stuttered words of an 18-yr.-old college woman was studied. In contrast to earlier studies, the agreement (.91) was considerable. The high agreement seems to reflect the duration, complexity, and consistency of the subject's stutterings.
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