Revisiting speech rate and utterance length manipulations in stuttering speakers

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 159-178

  Blomgren, Michael ^a   Goberman, Alexander M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RATE; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUTTERING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38349032792     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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