Disfluencies of 3- and 5-year old Spanish-speaking children

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-53

  Carlo, Edna J ^a   Watson, Jennifer B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disfluencies; Preschoolers; Spanish speaking; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUERTO RICO; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STUTTERING;

EID: 0037412858     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-730X(03)00004-4     Document Type: Article

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