An Overview of Prosody and Its Role in Normal and Disordered Child Language

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 38-48

  Gerken, LouAnn ^a   McGregor, Karla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Language; Prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032370682     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360.0702.38     Document Type: Article

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