Hearing and Believing: Some Limits to the Auditory-Perceptual Assessment of Speech and Voice Disorders

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 7-23

  Kent, Ray D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perceptual judgments; Perception; Speech disorders; Voice disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030504499     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0503.07     Document Type: Article

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