Acoustic Analysis of Foreign Accent Syndrome: An Examination of Three Explanatory Models

Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 227-242

  Coelho, Carl A ^a,b   Robb, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Hospital for Special Care New Britain   (United States)

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