The Interaction between Vocabulary Size and Phonotactic Probability Effects on Children's Production Accuracy and Fluency in Nonword Repetition

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 421-436

  Edwards, Jan ^a   Beckman, Mary E ^a   Munson, Benjamin ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical development; Phonological development; Phonotactic probability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 2142713038     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/034)     Document Type: Article

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