Rhythm in the speech of a person with right hemisphere damage: Applying the pairwise variability index

Advances in Speech Language Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 256-264

  Knight, Rachael Anne ^a   Cocks, Naomi ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pairwise variability index; Prosody; Rhythm; Right hemisphere damage; Stress timed

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547698965     PISSN: 14417049     EISSN: 17429528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14417040701299541     Document Type: Article

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