Utterance rate and linguistic properties as determinants of lexical dysfluencies in children who stutter

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 481-490

  Howell, Peter ^a   Au Yeung, James ^a   Pilgrim, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STUTTERING;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; STUTTERING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0032893449     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.424585     Document Type: Article

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