Table 2.

Identification, description, and examples of the types of speech disfluencies considered to be stuttering-like (SLD) versus non-stuttering-like (non-SLD; Ambrose & Yairi, 1999).

Speech disfluency	Description	Examples
SLD
Monosyllabic word repetition	Repetition of a monosyllabic word	And (they) they were looking.
		El búho (lo) lo persiguió.
Sound repetition	Repetition of a sound within a word—typically occurs at the beginning of a word	The (d*) dog started playing.
		(S*) se metió en la canasta.
Syllable repetition	Repetition of a syllable within a word—typically occurs at the beginning of a word	Out of the (bu*) bucket.
		Se enojó (mu*) mucho.
Non-SLD
Revision	Word usage or grammatical error correction	His (frog) dog also came along.
		(La rana mayor) la rana bebé.
Unfinished word	Abandoned or not completed word	His (fr*) dog came along.
		Fueron (a bus*) a ver que era el sonido.
Phrase repetition	Repetition of a phrase within an utterance	(A squeaky) a squeaky sound.
		(Con las) con las avispas.
Interjection	Filler words or nonlinguistic sounds used within an utterance	(Um) what is this?
		La rana trató de (ah) tomar la leche.
Polysyllabic word repetition	Repetition of a polysyllabic (more than one syllable) word	He was (playing) playing around.
		(Para) para evitar la rana.