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How speech disorders affect multilingual identity

I speak three languages fluently but I stutter in all of them when I am nervous and I cannot figure out which version of myself is real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical speech disruption fractures the already complex landscape of multilingual selfhood into further uncertainty.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Second language acquisition theory?”

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