Assessing vocal development in infants and toddlers

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 351-369

  Nathani, Suneeti ^a   Ertmer, David ^b   Stark, Rachel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Infants; Prelinguistic speech development; Speech assessment; Toddlers; Vocal development

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; STARK ASSESSMENT OF EARLY VOCAL DEVELOPMENT REVISED; VOCALIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHONETICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TAPE RECORDING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 33746857209     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200500211451     Document Type: Article

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