Children's imitations of intonation contours: Are rising tones more difficult than falling tones?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 576-587

  Snow, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measures; Intonation groups; Markedness; Normal prosodic development; Rising tones

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; LEARNING; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

EID: 0031808820     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4103.576     Document Type: Article

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