Effects of Accent and Age on the Transcription of Medically Related Utterances: A Pilot Study

Communication Disorders Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-116

  Burda, Angela N ^a   Casey, Anna M ^a   Foster, Tonya R ^a   Pilkington, Anne K ^a   Reppe, Emily A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

adjective meaning; connotation; implicit causality; input; language development; language learning disorders; lexicon; vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547939957     PISSN: 15257401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15257401060270020101     Document Type: Article

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