Question 1
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Answer
Stuttering or stuttered speech involves audible or silent repetitions and prolongations. Tense pauses and hesitations within and between words may also be regarded as stuttering. Within-word and
between-word disfluencies are the cardinal features of stuttering. In young children, disfluencies regarded as stuttering include monosyllabic whole-word repetitions, sound repetitions, audible and inaudible prolongations. Clustered disfluencies are common in young children who stutter.