Sensitivity to structure in the speech signal by children with speech sound disorder and reading disability

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 294-314

  Johnson, Erin Phinney ^a   Pennington, Bruce F ^b   Lowenstein, Joanna H ^c   Nittrouer, Susan ^c  

^a Waterford Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FRICATIVE VOWEL SYLLABLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; PHONEME; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SOUND DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCODED SENTENCE; VOICE ONSET TIME; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CUES; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 79955809434     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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