Auditory sequence analysis and phonological skill

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1746, 2012, Pages 4496-4504

  Grube, Manon ^a   Kumar, Sukhbinder ^a   Cooper, Freya E ^a   Turton, Stuart ^a   Griffiths, Timothy D ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Auditory sequence analysis; Language; Phonological skill; Pitch; Rhythm

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; AUDITORY CUE; COHORT ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; STUDENT;

EID: 84866856950     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1817     Document Type: Article

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