Investigating the inner speech of people who stutter: Evidence for (and against) the Covert Repair Hypothesis

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 246-260

  Brocklehurst, Paul H ^a   Corley, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVERT REPAIR HYPOTHESIS; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SELF REPORT; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STUTTERING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; STUTTERING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952186092     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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