Young children's production of syllable stress: An acoustic analysis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3192-3200

  Schwartz, Richard G ^a   Petinou, Kakia ^a   Goffman, Lisa ^b   Lazowski, Gerri ^a   Cartusciello, Christine ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0029919128     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414803     Document Type: Article

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