Table 7.
Number of active declarative sentences at each complexity level and utterance length in words.
| Group | Complexity level | Length in words |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13+ | ||
| CWNS | 1 | 54 | 53 | 38 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 177 | 242 | 205 | 130 | 71 | 27 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 4 | 57 | 121 | 90 | 80 | 39 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 27 | 26 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 8 | |||
| CWS-R | 1 | 27 | 48 | 33 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 68 | 127 | 135 | 108 | 50 | 38 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | |
| 3 | 2 | 15 | 51 | 57 | 43 | 30 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 5 | |||
| CWS-P | 1 | 47 | 54 | 30 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 141 | 207 | 157 | 83 | 54 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 79 | 116 | 99 | 55 | 25 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
Note. Only utterances between four and six words in length were included in the data analysis (utterances in bold). Utterances of fewer than four words were almost exclusively classified as Complexity Levels 1 and 2, and utterances of more than six words were more likely to be classified as Complexity Levels 3 and 4. By only including utterances containing four to six words, we maintained consistency with Rispoli and Hadley (2001) and ensured that the data were not skewed. CWNS = children who do not stutter; CWS-R = children who recover from stuttering; CWS-P = children who persist in stuttering.