Language and fluency characteristics of preschoolers' multiple-utterance conversational turns

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 178-188

  Logan, Kenneth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Fluency disorders; Normal language development; Pragmatics; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONVERSATION; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; SPEECH RATE; STUTTERING; FEMALE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0037526131     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/014)     Document Type: Article

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