Physiological indices of bilingualism: Oral-motor coordination and speech rate in Bengali-English speakers

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 321-332

  Chakraborty, Rahul ^a,b   Goffman, Lisa ^a   Smith, Anne ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bengali; Bilingual; Speech motor control; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAW MOVEMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LIP; MOTOR COORDINATION; PHONEME; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; JAW; LEARNING; LIP; MOVEMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45249125095     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/024)     Document Type: Article

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