Vowel and dipththong development in Cantonese-speaking children

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 597-617

  Stokes, Stephanie F ^a   Man Wong, I ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cantonese; Diphthongs; Speech development; Vowels

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CHILD; CHINESE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOWEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LANGUAGE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHONETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0036959423     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269920021000034967     Document Type: Review

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