Intonation abilities of children with speech and language impairments

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-20

  Wells, Bill ^a   Peppé, Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elementary school children; Intonation development; Language disorders; Prosody disorders; Speech disorders

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PHONETICS; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PHONETICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0038540169     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/001)     Document Type: Article

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