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Abbreviations .......................................................................................................................... 7<br />

1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 9<br />

1.1 Components of the process of fluent articulation ...................................................... 10<br />

1.2 What is stutter<strong>in</strong>g? ..................................................................................................... 12<br />

1.3 Subtypes of stutter<strong>in</strong>g ................................................................................................ 13<br />

1.3.1 Acquired stutter<strong>in</strong>g ....................................................................................................... 13<br />

1.3.2 Psychogenic stutter<strong>in</strong>g .................................................................................................. 13<br />

1.3.3 Persistent stutter<strong>in</strong>g ...................................................................................................... 13<br />

1.4 Approaches to expla<strong>in</strong> stutter<strong>in</strong>g ............................................................................... 15<br />

1.4.1 Psychol<strong>in</strong>guistic approach ............................................................................................ 15<br />

1.4.2 Motor deficit perspective .............................................................................................. 16<br />

1.5 Neurophysiological approaches to expla<strong>in</strong> stutter<strong>in</strong>g ................................................ 17<br />

1.5.1 The cerebral dom<strong>in</strong>ance hypothesis ............................................................................. 18<br />

1.5.2 The basal ganglia hypothesis ........................................................................................ 21<br />

1.5.3 The disconnection hypothesis ....................................................................................... 24<br />

1.6 Scope of the dissertation ............................................................................................ 27<br />

2 Orig<strong>in</strong>al Articles ................................................................................................................... 29<br />

2.1 Right-shift for non-speech motor process<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> adults who stutter ................................ 31<br />

2.2 Reduced <strong>in</strong>tracortical <strong>in</strong>hibition <strong>and</strong> facilitation <strong>in</strong> the primary motor tongue<br />

representation of adults who stutter ...................................................................................... 61<br />

2.3 Instable phoneme categorization <strong>in</strong> adults who stutter ................................................... 95<br />

3 Summary ............................................................................................................................ 123<br />

4 Conclusions <strong>and</strong> Future Prospects ...................................................................................... 125<br />

4.1 The TMS approach ....................................................................................................... 125<br />

4.2 The speech perception approach ................................................................................... 126<br />

4.3 Future directions ........................................................................................................... 129<br />

Appendix A – Levelt’s psychol<strong>in</strong>guistic model <strong>and</strong> the DIVA model .................................. 131<br />

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