Language and disfluency in nonstuttering children's conversational speech

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 185-207

  Yaruss, J Scott ^a   Newman, Robyn M ^b   Flora, Tracy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tacoma School District   (United States)

Author keywords

Disfluency; Language formulation; Nonstutterers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH THERAPY; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032865848     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-730X(99)00009-1     Document Type: Article

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