Unilateral brain damage, prosodic comprehension deficits, and the acoustic cues to prosody

Brain and Language

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-214

  Pell, Marc D ^a   Baum, Shari R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0031002591     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1997.1736     Document Type: Article

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