Speech and articulatory rates of school-age children in conversation and narrative contexts

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-59

  Sturm, Jennifer A ^a   Seery, Carol H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulatory rate; Children; Conversation; Narrative; Speech rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CHILD; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33847052566     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2007/005)     Document Type: Article

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