A prosodic approach to filler syllables

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 246-249

  Demuth, Katherine ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0035257087     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000900004463     Document Type: Article

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