Characteristics of disfluency clusters in adults who stutter

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-42

  Robb, Michael P ^a   Sargent, Ainsley ^a   O'Beirne, Greg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adults; Disfluency clusters; Stuttering; Utterances

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STUTTERING; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STUTTERING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66549105237     PISSN: 14015439     EISSN: 16512022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14015430902748519     Document Type: Article

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