ABSTRACT
Previous chapters have considered findings and theories from language and motor approaches. One theory presented in this chapter maintains that both language and motor factors are important and that many observations about stuttering are explicable in terms of the way these two processes interface. The theory stresses timing at the interface between these processes and it does not assume that either of the processes is error-prone in people who stutter. As errors are not responsible for how speech is controlled, a feedback mechanism that passes information about the accuracy of production back to the language process is not required. Such a feedback mechanism appeared in Levelt’s theory, discussed in Chapter 10, where the perceptual process was used to make a feedback loop to the conceptualization process.
