Childhood stuttering and speech disfluencies in relation to children's mean length of utterance: A preliminary study

Journal of Fluency Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-142

  Zackheim, Courtney T ^a   Conture, Edward G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Mean length of utterance; Stuttering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; STUTTERING;

EID: 0037941112     PISSN: 0094730X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-730X(03)00007-X     Document Type: Article

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