Speaking rate, conversational speech acts, interruption, and linguistic complexity of 20 pre-school stuttering and non-stuttering children and their mothers

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-51

  Ryan, Bruce P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Interruption; Language; Mothers; Speaking rate; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STUTTERING;

EID: 0033982279     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026992000298931     Document Type: Article

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