Perception of stop consonants in children with expressive and receptive-expressive language impairments

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 676-686

  Stark, Rachel E ^a   Heinz, John M ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Deficit; Language impaired; Phoneme perception; School age

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PERCEPTION; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0029786049     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jshr.3904.676     Document Type: Article

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