Normal Acquisition of Consonant Clusters

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 99-110

  McLeod, Sharynne ^a   Van Doorn, Jan ^b   Reed, Vicki A ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Children's speech; Consonant clusters; Normal development; Phonology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035588088     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2001/011)     Document Type: Article

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