The Influence of Language Dominance, Type of Language, and Narrative Task on Speech Disfluencies in Typically Fluent Bilingual English-Mandarin Children

The results demonstrate that bilingual children can produce disfluency patterns that are quantitatively and qualitatively different from monolingual and other bilingual populations. Clinically, this highlights the need for bilingual-specific diagnostic frameworks that account for language context, task demands, and different bilingual profiles.