I was just trying to give a brief over view of the general idea, but i'll try to answer these: 1. I think the main way would be, not getting them smashed. The is the main issue with using alcohol. Luckily there are lots of studies on the effect on alcohol on speech to compare to, so to be able to remove the not needed effects. 2. This is the one of the elements I'm looking at, the study will be one on one, OR depending on how many people get back to me in my local area, might appeal to an online audience. 3. I am going to try and get basic (not insulting) levels of text, a short 1 minute paragraph. 4. Due to stuttering not being that common, I am going to see who gets back to me and what kinds of stutters they have and the severity. Also a questionnaire (because everyone loves them..) about previous history, such as any speech therapy, treatments, medication etc 5. Actually by this, I'm trying to see that. If someones stutter is not effected by alcohol, their stutter may be an issue in the brain, a more physiological problem. Where as if it is, it could be the case through elements such as speech anxiety (which can be "passed" through families, or so the theory goes) and generate stutters in others, so then it would be a social anxiety based stutter. This is the general overall hope of the study, to see if there are two subsets of stutters, before you reach different stutters. 6. by language changes I just meant how the stutter changes, as they will be reading a set paragraph 7. This is one of the main issues. How much alcohol, how much can they drink, do they get really drunk or just tipsy? or measure the different stages? This is all getting ironed out currently. Damn people different alcohol tolerances. 8. Again this depends what route the study goes down. Hopefully they would be okay, Im going to try and do it in a more friendly environment than a lab. 9. hopefully there shouldn't be too much background noise, I had thought originally about trying to reduce as much social anxiety as possible by using things such as an xbox to generate communication, but then realised that itself can reduce the severity. So this is something that is getting worked on Thanks for getting back to me though, its good to see how other people see what I'm trying to do and I hope i cleared some stuff up. Like i said, this is still in its foundation stages, currently still reading text book upon text book to get as much research done before I start trying to complete it next semester.