Stop-consonant and vowel perception in 3- and 4-year-old children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3711-3722

  Ohde, Ralph N ^b   Haley, Katarina L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031440596     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420135     Document Type: Article

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