Comparing Semantic and Phonemic Fluency Performance in Adults Who Do and Do Not Stutter

Key Points

• To compare phonemic and semantic fluency performance between adults who stutter (AWS) and adults who do not stutter (AWNS).
• Compared phonemic and semantic fluency performance between AWS and AWNS.
• Assessed lexical access and executive control abilities.
• Analyzed results for differences in word storage and organization.
• AWS demonstrated poorer performance in phonemic fluency than AWNS.
• No significant differences were found in semantic fluency between the groups.
• Clustering performance, related to long-term memory organization, was similar in both groups.