Grammatical characteristics of children's conversational utterances that contain disfluency clusters

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 80-91

  Logan, Kenneth J ^a   LaSalle, Lisa R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disfluency clusters; Fluency; Grammatical complexity; Stuttering; Syntax

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; MALE; SPEECH; STUTTERING;

EID: 0032901112     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4201.80     Document Type: Article

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